Wire

While working with the wire, I was kindof struggling as it was almost too thin to manipulate and the idea of the structure wasn't really happening, so I started to double the wire over by twisting it.


This helped me become less precious and precise about drawing/sculpting with the wire and made it easier to shape and manipulate it.

I started by doing a quick, small drawing to figure out how best to work with the wire.

The next piece I started to work on was much more enjoyable- I liked developing the pattern using wire. It reminded me of sewing or drawing on something like an etch-a-sketch, mainly because I was working in straight lines and generally used a continuous piece of wire, to avoid having to re-attach the wire to the structure.

I've also started to look at the work of Cathy Miles- this is really lovely delicate work, especially that of "The Tool Shed", in which she created an entire garden shed's worth of tools out of wire.