green exhibition

I had problems attaching my cast elements onto the inner sleeve.I tried firstly by sweat soldering the pieces onto each other,however that failed because the cast elements when heated,had a nature of pulling away from the metal it was lying onto so I thought if I rivet certain areas and then solder it would still keep the pieces together so they do not pull apart.I wasn't successful yet again,the solder was only running on the inner sleeve and the branches were melting.

I bent up my bangle thinking maybe if I forged the branches according to the curve of the bangle then it would be easy to push down the branches using my fingers then solder.As I was hammering the elements and inner sleeve into a cuff I noticed that the elements were embedding themselves into the metal and then I thought i would be a better idea to fuse them together so that they no longer look like they placed one on-top of the other but that they look like they belong together.

 

I blackened the metal and glass brushed the bangle so that the blackened areas are in certain places.and used a burnishing sort of tool to remove the edges of the bangle so that it isn't sharp and painful to put on the arm.