A&S. Rabbit hole. A Set.
Materials: Sculpey clay, MoldMax silicone, R98 Pewter, tools
East Kingdom A&S Display, January 2021
"Doing Art as Service During These Crazy Times"
The particular brooches I fell in love with are held by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The wheel was found in a grave in Northern France; Stanislas Baron, Paris (Met). It is made from gilted silver and garnet, is 7/8ths of an inch in width, and one-quarter inch in depth (Met). There were many similar wheel-style disc brooches found throughout Europe, dating to that time period. The whorl was found in Bréban, Marne, France and is one-inch in width, and one-quarter inch in depth. Both brooches were found in the nineteenth century, and were gifted to the Met by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917. Bréban and its vicinity in Northern France were the site of a large grave group, which resulted in finding many items from the Frankish Merovingian era (Wiki).
As noted in each project's own original blog post, I fell down a research rabbit hole and wanted to learn as much as possible both about the casting process, and the Merovingian era. This inspired me to enter the East Kingdom's Arts and Science Display, January 2021.
Full A&S documentation can be found here:
To learn more about my molding and casting process, please read:
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