{"id":7497,"date":"2017-11-22T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7497"},"modified":"2017-11-22T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:50:02","slug":"the-resistance-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7497","title":{"rendered":"The resistance is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so too is my line of jewellery, entitled Resist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Resist Drop earrings, Resist neckpiece, \u00ff neckpiece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The \u00ff neckpiece is the latest addition to the series, and yes, it is the type of welded steel chain one might normally use to doubly secure one’s trailer to the hitch at the back of the car. I got it at my local hardware store (Shout out to 5 Corners Hardware – yes, not to be confused with the 5 Spot – a diner also in Queen Anne, or 5 Point Cafe, just down the road in Belltown. If you’ve not visited Seattle, and Queen Anne especially, the crosswalk motif is ‘at least 5 lanes of traffic, awkwardly conjoined’ and is somehow considered a whimsical feature. Shout out to Sydney, AU, I know you know this scene…) a year or so ago when contemplating chains for my piece for Boris Bally’s gun show Imagine. This length has thus been hanging on the door to my basement studio for long enough to leave semi-circular marks as the chain frequently arced across the door, tethered by a single nail.<\/p>\n

I was gradually sandblasting every scrap of steel chain I could come up with in my studio, and one day I was sitting at my enamel bench when I realised there was one I hadn’t tried. Cut to 20 minutes later, after hand sawning a sacrificial link *twice* in order to separate it from the rest of the length (the chain is just too thick to try and bend to get away with one cut alone), I was hugging the sandblaster in my usual fashion. Because zinc is a neurotoxin at just about the same temperature that enamel fires, it pays to assiduously remove all traces of galvanisation. Once blasted, I painted on a pretty swatch of my favourite blue of the day, fired, and viola! I had a beautiful chain, that read ‘\u00ff’ in binary, because, well, \u00ff are we in this mess…?<\/p>\n

And in case you’re new, \u00ff binary, or even,\u00a0\u00ff blue?<\/p>\n

In the Resist<\/em> system of binary\/ascii* communication, the 0\u2019s and 1\u2019s of binary code are switched from numbers to colors, gray and blue respectively. By individually enameling each part of a piece in the correct sequence, I encode words like \u2018no\u2019 onto earrings, or \u2018resist\u2019 onto pins and neckpieces.<\/p>\n

So why blue? Because that color is the opposite of orange <\/em><\/strong>on the traditional color wheel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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‘no’ chain earrings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These little messages in jewellery form are each hand-made and hand-enamelled in stainless steel, with titanium rivets and ear hooks on the ‘Resist tile’ pieces. They are very reasonably priced, and in some sort of seasonal coincidence, all of my stores have just been resupplied! What [in]credible timing!<\/p>\n

Please go check out these pretties ‘in the real’ in Australia at:<\/p>\n

Bilk Gallery<\/a> – Canberra
\nStudio 20\/17 Project Space<\/a> – Sydney
\nBini Gallery<\/a> – Melbourne<\/p>\n

and in Seattle and surrounds at:<\/p>\n

Bellevue Arts Museum Store<\/a>
\nDanaca Design<\/a>
\nFancy<\/a><\/p>\n

And if you’re around Seattle’s U district this coming Friday, Danaca Design is having its first ever Black Friday Jewelry Sale!<\/p>\n

Tis the season to buy into the beautifully handmade resistance.<\/p>\n

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As ever, 5% the artist\u2019s price from this series goes to Islamic Relief USA, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit humanitarian agency, whose work includes domestic and international development and relief projects.<\/p>\n

*gotta put ASCII in there or I’ll have to face a nerd uprising<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The resistance is handmade – here’s where to get your hands on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,58,107,120,109,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enamel","category-galleries-2","category-jewellery","category-materiality","category-process","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497","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=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7508,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}