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I placed the wound wire from the large fan shape to see the effect it would have which I found quite interesting as it had a more elongated appearance. The wires extruded from the ends unintentionally but also had an interesting appeal to it.

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In this picture the wires happened to land in this position whilst I was placing them onto the smaller size fan. I felt that it looked really interesting so I wanted to draw from this arrangement.

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This prototype I sunk the looped wire to apply the Golden mean proportion to it which also created a more visually pleasing affect in comparison with the previous prototype.

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In this photo I coiled the wire twice around a mandrel which seemed more successful but looked a bit like a safety pin.

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This was the next step, I decided to use one continual wire where I created a loop at the top instead of soldering the two wires together. I found the loop looked too narrow and disproportional.

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I then decided to bring the Golden mean into the proportion as I am working with sacred geometry, so I worked out the proportions in terms of the length of wire touching the fan to the length of the wire running to the tip where the two wires meet. When compared to the previous wire length I find this one much more visually pleasing and proportional.

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These are the earrings that I made in platinum for the anglo plat competition, I have decided to make them in copper as well as silver. They have a rustic African feel to them and I thought that by making them in copper and patinating them into a turquoise blue, it would further accentuate the Rustic feel.
This photo shows my first thought patterns as to the wire that I wanted to solder to the ‘fans’ so they can be hung from a shepherds hook.