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This is a forged sterling silver spoon, 124mm X 36mm and weighing 25g.

Sometimes it’s good to have a Naming Gift for a new born baby and a silver spoon is pretty ideal!

To make it, I cast an ingot and forged it on an anvil… there was some finishing done with abrasives and polish.

For years, I have been intending to cast a Bronze Pen-annular Brooch… In the past the Annular and Pen-annular brooches that Ive made have been in forged steel or of late (Ha!.. the last 20 years or so!)… in forged Stainless steel. These forgings have largely been contemporary designs of my own and when I started making them, pretty unique in the world till the advent of the internet.

This brooch is more traditional and with the Briar thorns, brings to mind the Hero Prince in the “Sleeping Beauty” tale….. Though I imagine Brere Rabbit, of the Uncle Remus tales, wearing one on his best coat!

So I have made a few and include some “process” pictures here with the finished Brooch.

We are deeply rooted and instinctual, while by insight, we know compassion.

I made this sculpture in response to the catastrophic bushfires late last year that took the little bush house where, in the eighties, mine and Irena’s boys were born. the making extended into the current Covid-19 pandemic and has taken on a particularly poignant aspect as we look to the future with the hope of a saner world that may emerge.

“In the country of the blind, the one eyed man is king”…. A comment on the current state of the nation.

Showing some of the process….

Im stocking up on stainless steel serving utensils .. get yours now!