I was inspired by a set of floral bathroom tiles to design an earpiece. Since I first laid eyes on the tiles I saw it as an earpiece and couldn't unsee it so I had to illustrate it. The illustration used a flower charm I found at Phil Bear jewellers. I had no connection to the generic flower, so I redrew the design using a photograph of a sunflower that I had grown myself.
I tried my hand at making the sunflower out of wax. I used the Fibonacci spiral for the centre of the flower as I knew that is how actual sunflower’s seeds are ordered. I attempted to copy the spiral pattern onto the wax but it did not work out. while working in wax I came to some realisations about things like the weight and the number of petals I added.
I made a medium size flower which I made a mould of with the large sunflower. The wax injections from the moulds weren’t coming out as whole flowers in the beginning, but I liked the broken pieces of wax. I started playing with the wax and layered some pieces which created a new element. I cast a smaller sunflower, that I made, alongside the new element.
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| Bowes, K., (2021). Dried closed sunflower. |
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