February 28th 2008…I have returned!
Thursday, February 28th, 2008After 3 months of heavy pregnancy followed by new-baby-land I am finally back on board with my creative work. Well, in some capacity anyhow. The idea now is to focus on two primary projects: arsenic + diabetes. To recap:
Arsenic (nee carrying wellness):
This is a wearable piece and vessel for purifying water of arsenic. The neckpiece is a receptacle that carries mesoporous iron oxide which can remove arsenic from water.The vessel incorporates filtering devices and electroluminescent cable to provide illumination for the user when purifying water in darkness. The vessel and neckpiece are designed for people in transit in areas where arsenic is prevalent in found water (India, Bangladesh, United States).
Diabetes:
I am developing a series of rings which house Microarray patches - for delivering insulin to the body at a dermal level. These are the extension of the Patch Rings (see pic 29 September) that I developed last year with Nanovic last year. They will be cast silver and hopefully contain some shape change alloys. As part of this project I am also developing a wearable administering device which will allow the microneedles to penetrate the skin.
The projects will become part of the Refashioning the Fashion exhibition at Object Gallery in Sydney in late June.
Refashioning the Fashion: Jewellery to rebuild, recreate, restore, renovate, reassemble, remodel, refashion, revamp, recondition, reinact.
(Source: Object Gallery website)
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Since last writing I have had some work in the FUSE exhibition in Adelaide. The show, curated by the extremely talented Sean O’Connell, was a group of invited “artists and jewellers exploring self and society through diverse technologies” (official catalogue blurb). My project, Arrhythmia, is an interactive which mimics certain Arrhythmias or disturbances in the rhythm of the heartbeat. As the user holds the heart and taps into its unsettling rhythm one engenders feelings of concern for the object. When cradled in the hands the heart beats but when put down to rest it stops beating. See www.fuseexhibition.com for more information.
Photograph by Sean O’Connell
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