Dis-armed soldiers

I decided to subvert my army men and make them a bit humourous by dis-arming them. I gave them a new outlook on life.

Each Army man has a title. The title's are almost like little inspirational sayings for "life"


Keep Memories


Let Love

Aim

Bloom

Find a Friend

Give a little

Live it up

Enjoy the ride

Protect yourself

Throw the line

The display for the Jewellery is art too exhibition

Lighting at the columbo Exhibition

army men

I have been cutting out little silhouette army men and had an idea of making makume gane plate and cutting them out of there to make them camoflagued.

So nick guided me through this technique....

Step 1: fusing the silver and copper layers together

Step 2: rolling the layers once they were fused (one layer started to peel away as it was not fused properly and it created a beautiful pattern.

Step 3: starting to burr in the pattern

I learnt that it is better to use a wider burr than a small little one as more pattern comes out with the bigger burr

The pattern done with the smaller burr.

step 5: rolling out the pattern

My hydrangeas and army men met

there was a bit of tension...

I really like the shadows created by the hydrangeas as you can see in the picture above, I could do something with the shapes of that shadow!

creating a contrast. Hydrangeas and army men

words that I feel go with my hydrangeas are: delicate, soft, feminine, fragile, fresh.....

now I am thinking about something that could contradict this idea of the hydrangea that i focus on. In a discussion in class an option for showing something or expressing it more was to contradict it or make a contrast with something that is opposite to it. So i was thinking about using my hydrangeas and the theme of transience and fragility and I came up with the idea of using little army men with them to create a contrast or contradiction between the two.