Anya Morris – United Kingdom

Harmony

Description

My interpretation of the theme ‘Equilibrium’ is balance and colour. I have chosen a delicate shape with a spiral to portray the very delicate nature of balance. The larger amount of feathers to the use of a small cluster of beads to allow the carbon fibre rod to balance on the point of the spiral. I have used the colour orange for the base and spiral to show the balancing point the centre colour of red and yellow mixed together being orange.

Materials

• Sinamay
• Feathers
• Swarovski Crystal Beads
• Carbon Fibre Rod
• Acrylic Paint
• Sewing Materials
• Wire
• Elastic
• Petershim Ribbon
• Glue

Techniques

• Blocking (wooden hat blocks) small button shape and Spiral
• Cutting (scissors)
• Hand sewing
• Painting the carbon fibre rod
• Binding the feathers together over a wire and then binding the feathers with thread to attach to the carbon fibre rod
• Wiring the beads together
• Gluing the group of beads to the carbon fibre rod