Sustainable living Exhibition - Buckles (Plug-ins)

The definition of Plug- in is:

plug-in

adjective

able to be connected by means of a plug : a plug-in telephone.

• Computing (of a module or software) able to be added to a system to give extra features or functions : a plug-in graphics card.

I especially like the part that says "able to be added to a system to give features or functions" Its feels like this process involves more of breaking away from a "System" to give extra features and functions,  Those functions are wearable art made from found objects, jammed and extended into jewelry.

Anyway here are  two buckles i constructed from the plug. I like the idea of them being smaller, and hopefully they will have wider appeall.

To create an interesting visual contrast i used yellow paint, thats what i had and thats what i used.I just wanted to make it more appealling. Im not so happy with the tiny bubbles. Big bubbles are acceptable but these little surface bubbles are driving me crazy.

I really need to invest in some new colours. I admit i've over done it with this purple.I used a piece of microchip to make a kind of "visual switch" to fill the empty cavity.

Something of relevancy which relates to Street art which has evolved in my research is the way in which i approach creating work.Its very, freestyle, improvised, hands on, DIY. I like it, Its like three dimensional anarchy! 

In the words of Steve Powers, graffitti artist and member of the barnstormers, he explains that when he works, he just calls it as he sees it, meaning things just unravel and each piece is created in a very spontaneous fashion.

Graffiti and street art has a relationship to bricolage, of "use what you can wherever you are in any given environment" Creativity just manifests and then you kind of release it in the moment.