Showing posts with label Eadweard Muybridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eadweard Muybridge. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 August 2009

Homing Pigeon Brooch. Silver, steel, computer bearing.


This brooch trembles with the movements of the wearer. The birds are taken from sketches of Plate 169 'Homing Pigeon' in Eadweard Muybridge's 'Animals In Motion'. I used oxidised silver to distinguish the birds from doves, and kept the wires short so they tremble as opposed to swing, a more suitable form of movement for a small bird.

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Bird Rings. Silver, steel and recycled computer parts.



Part of the Eadweard Muybridge series, simple silver bands with bearings from a computer hard drive mounted on the top holding the birds, which spin and move above and around the hand. A conceptual series of work that took further inspiration from Alfred Hitchcocks 'The Birds' - do you remember the main advertisement poster in which Tippi Hedren had her hands in the air with birds circling above?

Saturday, 1 August 2009

Running Man Bangle, Silver.


'Running Man' bangle inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's images capturing humans in motion. The bangle is made entirely from sterling silver, with each running man pierced from 0.5mm sheet, then hardened, shaped and polished before being rivited onto the bangle.