interesting images: 2011

Friday, 4 November 2011

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Comparative analysis

I am looking at the pendants A and B. Pendant A are two square shapes that set one above the other. Both squares are hollow constructive pieces, meaning you can see into it. Both squares have a wire running through it to keep it in place. One square has a ball on the inside of it to either create detail or to hold the square in place. This could symbolise our minds being in a box. The holes that let the wire through the box looks like it has been drilled through so that the wire can go through. The wire looks like it is also holding the ball on the inside of the box. The material used for this pendant looks like silver but it also looks like gold. One of the images for pendant A has two boxes whereas the other image only has one. The first image could symbolise our minds, because it always seems like we are living in a box, hence the square shaped hollow boxes. The ball on the inside looks like a pearl, because it has that shimmer of a pearl. To have the pearl in the box, the artist must have drilled a hole through the pearl for the wire to go through it. The other image has the box with an inner sleeve. This could mean that we have an inner self wanting to come out. It could also mean the closing of the box, in other words, we shutting ourselves off from the world.

Pendant B is in the shape of what’s looks to be like an oval shape. The oval shape looks like a hollow construction and it is holding a stone. The outside of the oval is plain, it has no pattern on it and it also looks like it has not been polished. It looks like it has a smooth yet rough texture on it, not highly polished. The colour of the stone is black and it could be associated with a haematite. It is a round stone and it looks like a hole has been drilled through the stone so that a rod could be pushed through for the jump ring to be soldered to it. The material used looks like silver.

The difference between the pendants is the shapes that it is in. Symbolically, it could mean that we live in our own worlds, no matter what the shape is.

Friday, 28 October 2011

Compative analysis

Figure A: It is a pendant. In the first image, I see a heart locket. This locket has a chain-like lock on the one side and has a hinge on the other. The heart has been domed and flattened around the edges so that it sits flush, meaning the edges touch. Before the heart was shaped, it was given a pattern with a hammer to create detail and not to be plain. The pattern on the heart is a zig zag pattern in a half circle. The other pattern that is on the heart is dots. It looks like it was roll-pressed. The clasp on the heart is a shepherd's hook and it is linked to the chain with a ball and a jump ring. A jump ring has been soldered at the bottom of the heart to hold the chain for the lock. The hinge is looks like it has been bolted to the heart and it is asymmetrical to the heart. It also is exposed, as to make it a feature on the locket. The jump ring that holds the chain is asymmetrical to the heart. It is long and cylindrical. It has a hole at the top to let the chain through and has a matte finish. The heart itself has a matte finish.

Figure B: It is also a pendant. This image piece is in a circular shape on the outside and a “Pac man” shape on the inside. Pac man is associated with eating things and it looks like it is eating the stone. The inside looks like it has been etched with a flower pattern. The inside of the flower looks like its leaf shaped and it has a circle around it. The outside of the flower has what looks like ellipse shapes. It looks hollow and has a stone set above it. The color of the stone is red. It is symmetrical because it the form is similar to each other. There are two jumps rings at the top which has been soldered to the outside ring so that it can hang from the chain. The surface of the pendant looks polished but not completely polished, only using one type of polish to give it a rough polished look. The pendant also looks like it has been domed, making it a hollow construction.

The comparison between the two is that one is circular, the other is in a heart shape. Figure A looks like it has been roll-pressed, figure B looks like it has been etched. Figure A has an exposed hinge, Figure B has no hinge.

Friday, 7 October 2011

Oscar Abba Jewellery

Each piece looks like it’s been saved from been completely melted down in another workshop. There is a contrast in metal thickness in all of the pieces and the pieces all show a sense of brittleness in between every piece. It takes a lot of skill to bend up the metal in that type of way. The pieces of metal look as if they have just been soldered together to get the look of roughness and an unfinished look. There is also a contrast in metal width and this is where i get the feeling that he wanted to play with that, that and the metal thickness. As far as i can tell, there is also an unfinished texture on the metal, as if it was just sanded and left like that. There is no high- polished finish that we are used to in the jewellery world. Perhaps the aim of his pieces is to show that not all jewellery has to have a high polished finish to be absolutely beautiful.

The similarities between the middle image and the bottom image are so close together than all three. The bottom two images are more deformed in the way the metal is bent than the first image and throughout all pieces, silver is used, to be more exact, sterling silver is used. Also, Oscar shows that a piece of jewellery does not have to have perfect geometric lines to be beautiful and that a scrap piece of metal can also be made into jewellery and can be beautiful. His designs are truly unique and no other designer would even think of those designs.

His first design is also more conserved than the other two pieces. In his last two pieces, he shows more emotion, like frustration and anger soldered together. He clearly had to clear his mind and thus, his designs show his process in creating the jewellery pieces we see today.