While playing with nylon and a piece of enamelled copper I created another abstract jelly shape...
The punched holes in the jelly fish 'body' were originally supposed to have cotton falling from them. But while sitting at my bench i started to play with the nylon lying around. when the nylon is threaded between two of the holes, it keeps it stiff and bouncy. It also gives it some sort of alien like sea creature look...
This weird little jelly is similar to the drawings I did when exploring the shapes of jelly fish...
This Jelly-ish shape will eventually become a brooch. I want the piece to be reminiscent of a Jelly fish without having to be too literal in its shape and colours.
The Nylon monofilament (more commonly known as fishing line) is being used as the tentacles in this piece. Although my work has little to do with fishing in particular, the association that the nylon has with the ocean is obvious. Perhaps people will interpret the piece in their own way? seeing the nylon either as a convenient material for tentacles or as some conceptual link to fishing and the sea as a source of food?
The picture above shows the flypressed element after enamelling. The nylon has been looped through the holes and bunched up, I thought that this looked quite interesting, even tho its not exactly a tentacle
In order to get the Jelly fish shape and feel, I used fly pressing. I cut different shapes and sizes out of stacked masonite for the moulds. Once these moulds were made I experimented with melting and drilling the metal before and after pressing. The photo below shows some of these pieces...
I came into the workshop this morning and sitting on the bench next to mine was this blue mould. I immediately thought, lil' blue jellyfish thing!
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so sweet
In order to try capture the 'jelly-ish' and translucent qualities of jellyfish, I experimented with nylon monofilament to create tentacles. I threaded the nylon through holes punched into a patinated copper dome to create an abstract jellyfish...
