Statement
For this piece I am concerned with the location and process of making art, and transformation over time. When we remove ourselves from a permanent work space we can increase our potential for inspiration. Furthermore. when we broaden the boundaries of our artistic processes to include involuntary actions and coincidental outcomes, then the limitations of art making subside. For the Three bracelets I focused on various aspects of this idea. The large bracelet with the wire strips is a platform to create voluntary artwork, and, because of its size, it lends itself to involuntary art making as well. The small bracelet with tools provides for a controlled process, where the small plain bracelet utilizes the less interactive art making process of simply going about ones daily life, and coincidentally making art. When we accept alternative and unexpected art making processed, our definition of art can extend to our very existence. In all of these bracelets I am interested in how this existence is recorded through the act of wearing the object.
I am pleased with the results and would be interested to see how many different outcomes these bracelets could bring. I think the bracelet with the binding wire was the most successful. The binding wire is typically just a tool used in the soldering process to bind materials together. I have often thought that binding itself is an art form, however, the wires are clipped away and discarded and the marks they leave are cleaned off. In this bracelet it is just the opposite. The binding wire is accentuated against the white background, and the soot marks add texture to the negative spaces.
