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| A happy find from the construction zone that is my studio! |
As a child, I fondly remember my cousins fashioning rings and people from brightly colored telephone wire. It was magical; they were older, and I was jealous! I never would have guessed then that my creative path would bring me full circle to my love affair with wire. If I were stranded on a desert island with only a few supplies, wire would be one of them.
This year, when my Mother spent time as an inpatient at our local rehab center, I decided to work while I visited with her. When I arrived and opened my tool box, I realized that I didn't have what I needed to complete my intended project. Instead of being disappointed in this discovery, I issued a challenge to myself. I allowed myself to create with wire and found objects from Mom's room alone...no beads...no pliers...no other tools of any kind. I find that limiting the materials, tools, or color palette of my work can stretch me creatively in ways that are hard to imagine.
These photos illustrate a few of the results from this project...
Day in and day out, wire also serves as the basis for many of the cold connections in my work. From wire wrapped connections to links fabricated from wire alone to rivets made exclusively of wire; I can't get enough of this stuff!
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