Texturing (more from spring of '09)

In September of '08 I made myself an interpretation of the Queen Akasha costume from the movie "Queen of the Damned" for Halloween. In order to do this I required some sheet metal. While poking around my basement I found some leftover furnace duct which my folks kindly allowed me to pilfer. Six weeks later I had my costume, and the seeds of some new ideas were sewn.

I went about doing other things, and then last spring it occurred to me that I could be doing some things with that sheet metal. First I made some earrings by gluing bits of scrap copper wire into a curvy pattern on little rectangles of the steel sheet. Then I had a spree of earcuff making..and the metal looked dull, so I decided to try texturing it with a punch and hammer. This worked out kind of neat, so I went on to do some pendants, seen below: