Week 10: OFFICEWORKS

10May10

Materials required this week, inexpensive boring stationery, material to make marks, something used to connect – (could be pins, tape, glue).

With our chosen stationery we were to construct a piece of fruit that could be worn in the form of a brooch.
In all the years I worked at NEC Australia I received correspondence relating to patents in these very nice synthetic paper envelopes. The envelopes were very tough and could not be torn. Certainly not environmentally friendly material that could be recycled with standard office paper. I started to keep the envelopes thinking one day I might do some thing crafty with them. I also liked the stamp with depicted Mt Fuji with cherry blossom flowers in the foreground.

NECJ Envelopes

So, I came to cherries made from the NEC enevlopes as the subject of my office brooch.

I made some internal structures from binding wire and included little cherry pips which would be placed inside each cherry; part of the brief was to think about internal structure of the fruit. My idea is the pips will be loose inside and make a rattling noise when shaken.