These two vessels are made from 1mm laser-cut stainless steel and titanium layers, that are intersected with continuous lengths of stainless-steel cable. Before assembly, the parts were part of a radiating pattern, thus the smaller layers can fit within the larger layers, like a puzzle. The pattern expands out from a central point, forming an 8-pointed star, with consecutive rings like those made around a single drop descending into a flat body of water.
The tensile cable that runs through each of the layers holds the parts in place and is terminated with a small ball weld at the ends. It clamps in place the layers, each repetitions of one pattern, two in titanium, three in stainless steel. The parts originally were devised as a frame around several jewellery works at the centre of the pattern, but taken from this context, became an investigation into how little material I needed to create vessel-like objects.
Under tension but not locked in place, they are ribbon-like and have a wave-like movement. The bands remind me of my father, a surveyor by trade and road-builder by experience, in the way they reflect freeway intersections and connections.
