PRESSED DUST BANGLES

Silver & brass dust created from the making of previous pieces is gathered together, melted, hammered flat & marked to form moving studs or leaves. 

When working at the bench the dust from each process- cutting, filing, sanding & polishing - falls into the bench skin. This is standard workshop equipment, a kind of leather hammock, that is fitted under the bench to catch off-cuts & general bench sweepings. I gather this dust & melt it down. Non-metal specks burn off during the heating process leaving a ball of newly formed metal. Each ball is then pressed flat by hammering. My dust contains both silver & brass in varying proportions hence the range of colours between each pressed ball. 

In this way the life of one of my pieces becomes incorporated into the next just as the making process of this next piece is gathered & formed into the next & so on, generationally. 

The movement of each pressed dust ball or leaf is suggestive of the unending cycle of things.

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