The image below shows a collection of sterling silver pendants inspired by my organic chain links.
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| Bowes, K.,(2021). Link pendants. |
Both of the pendants were put together from the textured links. Not all of the textured links were successful so I decided against making moulds of all the textured links and rather use the successful links to make finished pieces, as seen below.
The image below shows a collection of sterling silver rings inspired by my organic chain links.
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| Bowes, K., (2021). Link rings. |
The spin-off rings are derived from my organic chain like the earrings. They were also made with the intention to sell either at the market or on my website. For the rings, I tried to hide the link in the design so the use of the links is not as obvious as the spin-off earrings. The plain double band ring and the teardrop ring sold at the recent I heart market.
The image below shows a collection of sterling silver earrings inspired by my organic chain links.
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| Bowes, K.,(2021). Link earrings. |
I played with textures and the different sized links to generate a collection of spin-off pieces from my organic chain. I made the spin-offs for the I heart market which has started up again. I also added them to my website as I do have moulds of the links and could always make them again.
The hoop-like earrings I made were inspired by Naomi Tracz's Dalia Hoops. I know she uses her heavy marquise shape so I added a twist to my marquise set and left the other link flat as they have an interesting side profile. The Marquise studs were sold at the I heart market.
Figure 1 shows an ear cuff made that was moulded in wax and cast in sterling silver.
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| Figure 2- Bowes, K., (2021). Wearing the cuff. |
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| Figure 1- Bowes, K.,(2021). Finished cuff. |
The sunflower collection was inspired by a set of detailed ceramic tiles. I used these tiles to digitally design an earpiece, to personalise the design I edited it to incorporate a sunflower as at the time I was growing sunflowers in my garden.
I spent a lot of time moulding different sized sunflowers in soft wax, cast them and used them to make moulds. On my third attempt, I managed to make a sunflower small enough for the cuff, as seen in Figure 2. The earpiece only got as far as the cuff, as seen in Figure 1. I spent so much time trying to get the sunflower right and would like to spend some time getting the buds and leaves proportionate to the sunflower.
The other sunflowers I kept and used to make spin-off pieces. Thus going against Michelle Pujol's advice to complete the original design first because all the sunflowers were already cast and I did not want them to go unused.
