Blue Tin Set
Dimensions
75 x 75 x 15 mm (brooch), 45 x 45 x 25 mm (pin)
Materials
Pin and brooch: hand sawn, assembled and finished using a recycled tin, sterling silver fixings, heat-treated steel, stainless steel cable, surgical steel wire
Artist statement
‘Blue Tin Set is part of my Strung Planes series. Each piece begins as a single plane, cut into a series of precise patterns, whose shapes are constructed with the tools of Euclidean geometry — translation, rotation and reflection. They utilise replication of forms at shifted scale, using uniform scaling as well as morphological scaling — otherwise known as dilation and erosion. They also exploit the principles of fractal geometry as seen in the repetition of lines and forms at varying scales throughout a single work. The concentric layers are then strung together, held in dynamic tension. A frail line of steel thread connects the layers while simultaneously holding them apart.’
Blue Tin Set
Melissa Cameron
Dimensions
75 x 75 x 15 mm (brooch), 45 x 45 x 25 mm (pin)
Materials
Pin and brooch: hand sawn, assembled and finished using a recycled tin, sterling silver fixings, heat-treated steel, stainless steel cable, surgical steel wire
Artist statement
‘Blue Tin Set is part of my Strung Planes series. Each piece begins as a single plane, cut into a series of precise patterns, whose shapes are constructed with the tools of Euclidean geometry — translation, rotation and reflection. They utilise replication of forms at shifted scale, using uniform scaling as well as morphological scaling — otherwise known as dilation and erosion. They also exploit the principles of fractal geometry as seen in the repetition of lines and forms at varying scales throughout a single work. The concentric layers are then strung together, held in dynamic tension. A frail line of steel thread connects the layers while simultaneously holding them apart.’