The wrappers on chocolates are the insignificant part of the package, simply thrown away without any notice. Over Christmas break, without a doubt there is ALWAYS chocolates lying around the house, waiting to be eaten. For our last drawing workshop we were encouraged to think outside the box in terms of the items that we were going to bring with us to experiment with. This was no different. Casually unwrapping a gold coin, I thought about the wrapper, rather than the interior. hundreds of gold, circular packages, alike to sequins.
In my initial research I had looked into contemporary jewellery designs- with pieces that featured oversized golden beading and textures. This got me thinking that these wrappers could actually become something quite interesting. Although not happy with the colour as they are pretty garish, I started manipulating the wrappers into different embellishment samples, for example little flowers and built up sequences. Afterwards I also started placing the wrappers in order to create what looked like necklaces. The pieces are bland, and shapeless, but the idea was still there- to create something out of randomness.
I never used to enjoy the drawing workshops, finding it pointless to be creating what I thought was tat, but actually when you start to think out of the box about the materials you can use, it can be quite interesting. I am going to be using this technique again when looking closer at knots over the next few weeks.
