35 | project update: design domain

Goal: Make 21 objects
Criteria: Has to fit within overarching theme of Order/Disorder, and within my research theme of Kids. All items have to be no larger than the size of your palm.

I had a consultation with Maisie Broadhead for this project, and she gave me one of the best advice I've ever gotten in terms of designing jewellery. She said "You don't have to be polite about this, it's okay to be brash." It worked really well for this project, I must say.

Here's the catalogue of items. They're meant to be able to be worn individually, or with a few of the items, or with all of the items. We had to write a bit about each item, so what I wrote about each item is the handwritten bits in the catalogue.

34 | project update: mapping the body

Everyone had to pick a body part through a pin the tail on the donkey method and I got the part just below the knee. We had to research that body part and make something wearable.

Fun fact: here is no name for that part of the body!

Anyway, I made a mermaid tail that is heavy and has spikes in the metal band, with the cloth bit being removable.

This came about when I read a story of a person stranded at sea who morphed into a dolphin, and a separate illustration of different kinds of mermaid tails. So I thought, why not make something that can help make the transitioning process of a human to a mermaid a little bit less painful (assuming it is painful). House (the American drama series) taught me that without the brain, there is no pain. So it is possible to inflict a sharper pain to distract the brain from the original pain. Thus, the spikes. The weight of the tail is just to train the person's core muscles in preparation for the massive amount of work it has to do to swim with a tail.

33 | project update: text in form

For this project, we had to design and create a wearable object with text as the central conceptual theme. We were advised to look at the historical and contemporary use and significance of text in jewellery.

I made a modular charm belt. Kind of something like a charm bracelet, but in the form of a utility belt of sorts. Everything is made of fondant and icing, and the idea is that it has to be consumed for the charm to work (you can share it with other people too). And once there is nothing left of the charm, it ceases to exist.

Here's the catalogue I made to document it.

32 | project update: 6x6

6x6 is about thinking through making. We started out with a folding 3 lines on paper, and basically, work from there. We could do anything, as long as the resulting 36 items were a mix of 3D and 2D objects, each fitting within 10cm by 10cm.

I folded, drew, coloured, arranged, and folded even more stuff, before deciding to make 36 images from 3D objects. So I guess I fulfilled the brief by having 3D and 2D stuff even though I presented in its 2D form.

31 | Just so you know

Hi there,

I won't be updating this space for now. This blog has gone through a lot over a pretty long time with me, and it's going to stay here. I might update with works I'm doing in school, but it's definitely taking a back seat. At least for now.

Thanks for joining me through all my adventures. It's been fun.

Love,
Abby