I’m heading out to the Makerspace at Curtin Heritage soon for the first of three sessions (the first of two open to the general public) to make rapidlyclosingwindow… #8
The two days open to the public are:
Wednesday the 11th of June, 10:00am – 12:pm, Makerspace @ Curtin Heritage
Monday the 16th of June, 10:00am – 11:30pm, Marine Views Lobby @ Curtin Heritage
If you want to get involved, the first session is open for bookings here!
Circularity Collaboration – making art using post-consumer waste with Melissa Cameron, metalsmith and jewellery artist
Collaborate to create a large-scale artwork from bottle-top waste, encoding a binary message about the urgent need for a sustainable future.
Working with the artist to carefully prepare collected plastic bottle tops, you will be guided on simple jewellery techniques including wire stripping, drilling, and wire twisting. Work with Melissa and your friends to fabricate a colourful and meaningful jewel-like hanging – the more hands the merrier!
A Curtin Heritage Living collaboration – using our waste to create art.
This time around I will need someone on the drill, so if you’re handy with a tool it would be great to for you to let me know. We are working with locally collected bottle tops that are smaller than my usual fare, so instead of cutting out the centres we will drill them out (and maybe punch a few too). The grouping will be a little tighter, and assembly a little easier, so I can’t wait to see how it turns out!
Thanks to the encoding we’re following, it’s almost a form of very low-fi algorithmic making, without the cad/cam manufacturing. That the pattern is set but the system doing the work is not a computer but a group of human hands. The decisions those hands make will be interesting to see…