Anyone can join in, just post your photos under the Sunday Selections title, link back to Kim, then add your name to her Linky list at Frogpondsrock.
Yesterday Jahteh posted an amazing preview of The American Gem Trade Association 2011. I fell seriously in love/lust with a dandelion executed in quartz and diamonds with silver and gold thrown in for good measure. I commented that I had a dandelion clock which has been cast in perspex and I didn't know how it had been done without the dandelion falling apart. It is unmistakeably a real one and they are just so fragile. And as an aside who else remembers blowing on the clocks to see what time it is?
Jahteh demanded that I post it on Sunday Selections. So, here it is, though the photos don't do it justice.
My father had died before I discovered it. He would not only have loved it, but would have known how it was made. And my youngest brother and I bought one each with just that thought in mind.
When you find out how it was done, can you please let me know? I will ask around as well. Thanks for giving me something to ponder as I head up to the studio this morning. :) x cheers Kim
ReplyDeleteWow that is amazing, you would have thought the poured acrylic would have destroyed it. Great find.
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful, beautiful thing! Where can I get one?
ReplyDeleteI'm no expert on these things, so don't take my word for it, but I'd think the dandelion was gently sprayed with something to hold all the "feathers?" in place before being set in the perspex.
Kim; Kakka; Thanks and I'll let you know if someone tells me how it was done.
ReplyDeleteRiver: I think I got it from a Socrates gift shop - it was a couple of years ago now so I don't know whether they still have them. If there isn't one near you, let me know and I will have a look in our local one for you.
It is amazing though. I also wondered whether the 'feathers' (great name for them) had been set in something, but I can't think of anything that would be strong enough to hold against the heat and weight of the perspex.
It is truly beautiful. And mysterious, too. It looks like it is just frozen in time... Thank you for sharing it with me!
ReplyDeleteWowie, that is just gorgeous and I have never seen anything like it. We need Anne O'Dyne for the gogglesearch, because she is a genius at that.
ReplyDeleteFrozen in time just like the insect caught in amber :-).
ReplyDeleteSo delicate - and such a lovely way of remembering your father.
ReplyDeletePuffy. Looks like a prettier version of the El Alamein Fountain in Kings Cross.
ReplyDeleteAmazing.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous and delicate!
ReplyDeletewondrous - the dandelion and the story you tell with it...
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful object - fragile yet eternal!
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely. This link is interesting as a possibility http://www.grains-crafts.co.uk/pcast2.html
ReplyDeleteI've been using resin casting in my jewellery, cogs and clockwork bits with old pages of books in pendant bases, I'm going to look into this, though I still can't see just how it works.
All Consuming: thank you so much - it does look like a possibility, though one fraught with difficulty.
ReplyDeleteFantabulous. And I hope the Smaller Portion is home and healing and happy (and that the cats are behaving!)
ReplyDeleteDJan, JahTeh, Windsmoke,Two Tigers, ladyfi, Mitzi (don't know that fountain),Corymbia,Kristy, daisyfae: Thank you all. It is amazing isn't it?
ReplyDeleteAmpersand Duck: Thanks. The smaller portion got home late yesterday and is starting the long slow healing process. Needless to say one of the cats (thats you scarsnoz, aka spike, aka sid vicious) is not behaving. The other varies.
Peggy has one. Tell you what you shouldn't do with such things though is to put them where they will get direct sunlight because that will darken the material that it's encased in.
ReplyDeleteThanks Snowbrush. It isn't in direct sunlight, but I will keep that in mind. How are you? Recovering well I hope.
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