The aluminium was time-consuming and fragile. I wanted the appearance of fragility but not for the piece to fall apart. Instead, I placed my actual skeleton leaves in epoxy and used a forged tapered wire as the structure of my epoxy earring.
I forged the thicker end of the tapered wire to stop the leaf from sliding off and to make the forging look purposeful I used it to add a catch for the earring. The catch will also help keep the shape of the wire changing from the weight of the epoxy leaf but the leaf is still unsteady on a single wireframe.
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| Bowes, K., (2021). Front view. |
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| Bowes, K., (2021). Prototype. |
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