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Swan Lake
“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.” – Erol Ozan (E.O. author profile Goodreads)
Story
Swan Lake was the first ballet my mother took me to see when I was a little girl and kicked off an everlasting love for dance (and swans). In my student days, I made a lot of drawings of dancers, and this series was conceived when I came across some old sketches a few years ago. I generally prefer abstract forms but decided right then and there to make an exception and to create a dancer-silhouette necklace.
Later, when I saw a couple of swans ‘dancing’ on the ice in a park nearby, I added some of their silhouettes to my figurative work, and the Swan Lake series was born.
Ultimately, these silhouettes are an attempt to catch a breathtaking, split-second moment in time (while still holding on to some level of abstraction by only focusing on the outline, not specific features). I look forward to widening the scope of this series with other dance styles, especially jazz.
Form
Silhouettes of (ballet) dancers and swans.
Technique
Aside from taking photographs and making sketches of dancers/swans, the main technique for this series is very carefully piercing metal with a saw to precisely cut out the silhouettes. Much patience and restraint are needed, not my forte!
Material
Various salvaged or offcut metals including silver(plate), aluminium, copper and brass. Any sheet metal will do as the silhouettes don’t require any heat, and maybe one day I’ll try wood or Perspex.
“There’s double beauty whenever a Swan
Swims on a Lake, with her double thereon;” –
Thomas Hood (Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg, 1840-41)
01 Jewels/
Swan Lake
“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.” – Erol Ozan (E.O. author profile Goodreads)
Story
Swan Lake was the first ballet my mother took me to see when I was a little girl and kicked off an everlasting love for dance (and swans). In my student days, I made a lot of drawings of dancers, and this series was conceived when I came across some old sketches a few years ago. I generally prefer abstract forms but decided right then and there to make an exception and to create a dancer-silhouette necklace.
Later, when I saw a couple of swans ‘dancing’ on the ice in a park nearby, I added some of their silhouettes to my figurative work, and the Swan Lake series was born.
Ultimately, these silhouettes are an attempt to catch a breathtaking, split-second moment in time (while still holding on to some level of abstraction by only focusing on the outline, not specific features). I look forward to widening the scope of this series with other dance styles, especially jazz.
Form
Silhouettes of (ballet) dancers and swans.
Technique
Aside from taking photographs and making sketches of dancers/swans, the main technique for this series is very carefully piercing metal with a saw to precisely cut out the silhouettes. Much patience and restraint are needed, not my forte!
Material
Various salvaged or offcut metals including silver(plate), aluminium, copper and brass. Any sheet metal will do as the silhouettes don’t require any heat, and maybe one day I’ll try wood or Perspex.
“There’s double beauty whenever a Swan
Swims on a Lake, with her double thereon;” –
Thomas Hood (Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg, 1840-41)
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