Wearable sculpture

 My plan to develop my sculpture into a wearable piece started with a drawing and a plan to use beads. I knew beads would be a great way to bring some colour back into my work. I managed to find green beads similar to the colour of the living succulent and the white if the string is similar to the white details of the plant. 

I researched different beaded chain techniques and the "Two Bead Spiral Herringbone Rope" stood out to me as it resembles DNA. "DNA [...] is a long molecule that contains our unique genetic code,"(DNA, the code for life, n.d.). "Like all living organisms, plants use deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as their genetic material,"(Grotewold, Chappell and Kellogg, 2015). The beads I used were bought last year and match the colour of the original succulent.

Bowes, K.,(2021). Drawing

Bowes, K.,(2021). Sculpture and beading.

FutureLearn. n.d. DNA, the code for life. [online] Available at: <https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/the-genomics-era/0/steps/4867> [Accessed 22 October 2021].

Grotewold, E., Chappell, J. and Kellogg, E., 2015. Plant Genetic Material.[online] Available at: <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118539385.ch1> [Accessed 22 October 2021].