Wired

I've been rather consumed of late with assignments on Organisational Change Management for uni ... and haven't managed to actually create much ... however it doesn't stop me thinking about it.  

I've played a bit with wire before ... particularly copper wire.  I love it's colour ... I like the malleability of it ... the patterns it can make.

Detail of a copper wire woven form

I've experimented a bit with weaving such as the example above and made a whole bunch of flowers over the  years as well which have been distributed amongst my friends and family.

Copper wire and drafting paper flower - unpainted

Most of them I painted bright colours, however I did keep one unpainted ... and it's still a favourite today.   I like the patterns of the old drawings in this flower ...  My father is a mechanical engineer and he used to give me rolls and rolls of old plans, back in the day before CAD.  It was extremely handy and became the inspiration for the flowers ... along with copper wire.

I would probably do lots more with copper wire now if it was for the price of cooper these days.  I used to go to a metal merchant years ago were copper wasn't really of interest them.  These days ... they want to buy it off you not sell it you.  That got me thinking about wire coat hangers.  They aren't as ease to bend ... but they are definitely easy to come by ...

Of course, it's been done before ... I found these great examples of sculptures from coat hangers ... definitely inspirational:

http://modernurbanliving.com/2008/10/coat-hanger-art/