{"id":515,"date":"2010-05-18T13:21:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T03:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:33:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T03:33:42","slug":"black-and-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"black and night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the Bettina Speckner<\/a> workshop I did last year.<\/p>\n

The centre work alters recycled objects, while the other two work with large black beads which I took from my small collection of large beads (I had three in black, three in red and three in white, all acquired in Albany<\/a>, WA, while I was on assignment down there for a few days, years ago.) These were bought specifically to wear to a 20’s theme party held by my littlest sister.<\/p>\n

The necklace recycled an umbrella handle (from an umbrella I ‘borrowed’ from my mum\/dad, and which later collapsed in a Melbourne storm – hey, it was originally from London, so don’t talk to me about a Perth umbrella not living up to a Melbourne shower…) and an electrical power cord. I sliced everything (yup, one trick pony…) and then reconstructed the parts.<\/p>\n

I flippantly dismiss my slicing as my ‘one trick’, but in this case I was looking at my practice from a different angle, and created some particularly self-reflecting work. For whatever reason, I ended up working in reverse. I usually design a bunch of shapes, and then slice them. For this I sliced a bunch of objects, and then designed with them.<\/p>\n

I was reminded of this project this morning, when I opened a parcel from Jasmine Matus for the Box Project<\/a>. It’s going to be an interesting experiment, whichever way I slice it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melissa did a workshop with Bettina Speckner in 2009. She shares now? Ulterior motive afoot? Read on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,107],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-jewellery","tag-masterclass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}