Ani Stafford-Townsend – United Kingdom

Electric Storm

Category: Modern

Description

Inspired by the electrical fusion in a storm, this headpiece has been created using thermoplastics, fibre optics and reclaimed aerial fuse wire. Wires whip into the shape of a whirlwind, and with the flick of a switch lightning crackles.

Fibre optics cabling carries the light of a LED hidden within the headpiece, to transmit sparkling pops of light within the copper mesh.

Materials

• Foss shape
• millinery wire
• aerial wire
• copper wire
• fibre optic cable
• acrylic spray
• comb
• LED
• electrical circuit
• batteries (not included- jokes…I’ll get my hat…)

Techniques

• hand blocking of foss shape
• wire working
• pliers
• millinery block
• electrical circuit building and cabling