chapter 3 - Pods on a Branch

Pods on a Branch

Figure 17 - van der Linden, A., (2019)
Pods on a Branch, Sculptural Piece,
Sterling Silver and copper

Pods on a Branch is a sculptural piece that I constructed using the copper gooseberry pod elements that I created beforehand. This piece consists of five copper gooseberries on a sterling silver branch. The branch was created by fusing and soldering together silver wires. The texture was produced by reticulating and by scribing lines into the surface using the sharp edge of a setting bur. Pictured in figure 17

Pods on a Branch
Vessels on a twig
are tremoring in tandem
dancing in rhythm

Each one containing
something of significance
some large, others small

Balanced together
some may fall, new ones will grow
in empty spaces