Shelley Norton
Box brooch #1
Box brooch #1
Brooch, 2018
Recycled plastic bags, stainless steel pin
8 x 7 x 8cm
The pieces are made out of plastic shopping bags - they are not coloured by me - I often get asked that. I cut the bags, knit them on fine needles - the blocks of background colour are added during the knitting. I then melt the plastic flat and then layer up the image - as in painting, but I am melting each piece as I work on the image. Slots are cut, and I construct the pieces into a 3-d objects, melting the tabs, and riveting and adding the brooch pin.
Little thought about floral sprays that adorn humans like fancy packaging... A nod to Otto Künzli’s wall paper brooches, one to Eduard Manet’s small paintings of floral bouquets, another to lavish chocolate box packaging. Plastic, the great imitator, leveling and flattening hierarchies of value. SN, 2018
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