Gold Bonds

Lisa Bell

Australia

• Wonderflex Spirals Project by Carrie Jenkinson

I love using different materials and so the Wonderflex spiral project inspired me to start there.

What fascinates me with this process, is that you make a start with an idea/inspiration and what you end up with is something quite different. A lovely part of my own artistic journey.

Instead of Wonderflex, I chose cane which originates from the Rattan Palm and primarily grows throughout tropical regions of South East Asia. It's also very pliable and mouldable.

My design has imitated spirals of a different form, an artistic view of two DNA strands (polynucleotides as they are formally known), joined by nucleotides and covalent bonds. Like the Wonderflex spirals, I love a good metallic gold colour and a headpiece where the attachment is not obvious.

I used a very minimalistic headband to attach to the head and opted for bobby pins along the very thin wire to secure, along with the elastic. It is designed to hide under the hair and the headpiece sitting effortless on the right side of the head.

• Cane
• Jute twine
• Millinery Wire
• Raffia
• Gold paint
• Hat elastic
• Florist tape

• Constructed the two DNA strands using cane, millinery wire and jute twine.
• Covered the millinery wire in raffia
• Coloured the DNA strands in Gold paint.
• Wired together the DNA strands
• Constructed the wire headband using millinery wire, black florist tape and hair elastic. (headband needed to be able to hide in the hair, so minimalistic)