Vet museum exhibition

Ashanti charm bracelets exhibition.

On the above is our Ashanti charm bracelets at the Wits Art Museum, part of the material encounters exhibition and symposium.

Ashanti charm bracelet

Ashanti gold weight charm bracelet.

 

Here I am showing the last step and how it came out. This charm bracelet includes carnelian, two spirals and a running rabbit, brass casting was used in gold weights while chain and fob style catch was handmade. This bracelet is in wrist proportion. The spiral motif identified in the Ashanti collection doubles as a rabbit eye, underlying a visual region. One rabbit is presented in a running posture, referring to the proverb's warning to focus on one task at a time.

Bracelet

Chain and Fob style catch.

 

This is another process where I was making jump rings using brass with 1,2mm and 14mm loops that are half planished. I thread the pair of closed rings onto an open ring, closed it and solder the joint. This was the easiest way of putting my jump rings altogether. After putting them together I planished them using multiple hammer strikes, overlapping on the metal to smooth out the surface. In the fob style catch wire is 1,5mm and 21mm bar, the big round is 15mm wire and 15mm loop, and lastly four smallest jump rings are 0,8 wire and 5mm jump ring. 

Lost wax after casting

Ashanti gold weights from lost wax casting.

On the above is ashanti gold weight from casting, it includes carnelian, running rabbit and spirals. This is made from beeswax which when heated melts leaving the hollow which can be filled with brass. We made our models with wax, followed by investment process in which a wax pattern is used to shape a disposable ceramic mold. The last step was melting our metal and pouring it into a mold through a hollow channel called a sprue. The metal and mold are then cooled, and the metal part is extracted. 

Carnelian and rabbit

Carnelian and Rabbit.

 

These are my two ashanti gold weights the carnelian and rabbit made with brass an alloy of copper. I choose rabbit because it reminds me that in life, I should focus on one thing at a time not multiple and also to not rush but to take time in everything that I do. Meaning if you chase two rabbits one will escape. The second one is carnelian which reminds me every day that I cannot afford to let heartbreaks in life to ruin my future I should keep on standing no matter how bad the situation is. Meaning if you never take the risk, you'll never take the triumph. 

Lost wax rabbit

Running rabbit.

 

This is my South African proverb Ashanti made with wax, it came about a running rabbit that says if you chase two rabbits one will escape, meaning you should do one thing at a time not multiple because one might not be a success. This was the first step of this project we had to make our Ashanti proverbs using lost wax method for casting. 

Brief

Colour contrast in photography

 I am going to design and manufacture a piece of jewellery of my own conception. The piece should be according to the theme of contrast, which is the state of being strikingly different from something else in close association between art elements like colour, value, size, texture, and so on can intensify the elements used.