Pendant with interchangeable and removable brooch elements, plus short-story.

The pendant is made from a stopcock handle found in the basement of the derelict Leith Tramworks in Edinburgh. It becomes, with the help of a rusted light-fitting, a bathysphere, from which marvellous corals (set into the top of a ring) can be spied. The depth to which the bathysphere can dive is indicated by the element on the chain and the strange sea-creature there can be removed and worn as a brooch.

The coral is hand-made ceramic (porcelain) by Lisa Stevens, a marvellous ceramics artist from Bristol, UK.

The bathysphere is made from found steel, silver, brass from a spring-balance, garnets, gold, included quartz, a lens from a vintage movie camera, magnets from an old electric toothbrush and a diamond. The hanging tag is hand-engraved.

The ring inside the bathysphere is made from silver and ceramic.

The "Full Fathom Five" brooch is made from silver, hand-raised and torch-coloured titanium and a pale amethyst. It sits on a chain element made from a rusty steel rule, silver and brass.

The chain and bayonet catch are hand-made and the swivel mechanism is made from a found iron bolt.

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Albums: Pendants And Collars
Location: glasgow

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Comment by The Justified Sinner on April 2, 2011 at 5:26am
Thank you. I will need to get the short story into shape and put it on my website!
Comment by Sophia Georgiopoulou on April 2, 2011 at 12:54am

Love it!

 

Comment by Catherine Witherell on March 29, 2011 at 2:55pm
oh!

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