Ossicles

This is the lid for my container- planning the pattern for the holes to drill was a lot harder than expected! I used a compass, string and a lot of eye balling.

Individually cleaning ball pins. I like how every ball pin is different- it has this creepy organic feel to it.

Cleaned the lid and riveted all the ball pins through. This was such a repetitive and tedious job (as was the rest of it).

Little domes approximately 4mm wide with 1mm drill in the centre.

All riveted through, including my polymer clay beads! The lid took me 3 full days to do and I was relieved and beyond over it when completed. In this picture it displays more clearly the kind of pentagonal pattern/sequence I was going for.

Here is a full picture of the container. The base is basically an identical hemisphere as the lid. The piece is approximately 43mm tall. 

Postcard for presentation.

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Ring- Brass & Jade stone

Rotational Forms

3 Handheld geometric objects that are all capable of spinning.

Materials: copper and pinewood

Creation

Hand made brass pin. 

Approx. 3.5cm x 5cm

Pin length Approx. 8.8cm

The Iban people tell of Ara and Irik, two bird spirits floating above an expanse of water at the beginning of time. Seizing two eggs from the water, Ara made the sky from one egg, whille Irik made the earth from the other. As Irik squeezed the earth into its proper size, mountains & rivers appeared on its surface. Then the two creator spirits shaped bits of earth into the first people & woke them to life with bird cries.

Interested in the mythology of birds and creation, I want to make a pin that would encapsulate the story. Taking details from the story and combining them together will visually communicate the idea of creation and birth.