The triangle focal piece on this neckpiece is a piece of brass found during one of my rummages through a bin at my local scrap yard. Brass Treasure Neckpiece by Annie Desantis
Hammered and pierced, the focal piece is wrapped in pure silver wire threaded with tiny recycled glass beads.
These tiny beads are made from ground recycled glass in Africa. A fabulous use of waste glass, but also these tiny treasures are their livelihood.
Brass Treasure Neckpiece – closeup by Annie Desantis
A tiny disk of hammered, patina’d hot water cylinder dangles off the bottom, and the piece is attached to a hand beaten chain made from recycled copper and brass with hammered blobs of solder.
This neckpiece is a collection of recycled elements! The lime and yellow sari silk in the centre focal piece, is factory waste that I buy from women in India. Some of the tiny treasures I have unearthed among the scraps are gorgeous.
Limeyellow Sari Silk Focal neckpiece by Annie Desantis
The silk is wrapped with enameled copper wire around a square hammered copper wire piece made from recycled electrical wire with a hammered solder bead (blob actually!)
Limeyellow SariSilk Focal Neckpiece (closeup) by Annie Desantis
The lower circle is wound with teeny tiny wires I reclaim from old speakers, hammered, then partly wrapped in pure silver wire and hung with tiny recycled lemon yellow glass beads. These tiny glass beads are hand made in sand with fire from crushed glass in Africa. No fancy kilns or even electricity! Amazing how creative people always find ways to work, but more importantly these tiny treasures are their livelihood.
The dangle on the right hand side is a hammered piece of brass found in my local scrap yard, threaded with another tiny lemon recycled hand made bead.
The chain is made from individual hammered curly links, with a leather thong around the neck, attached with pure silver wrapping and two more tiny lemon recycled glass beads.
Blue Moon is another neckpiece from my series “I used to be a hot water cylinder”.
“I used to be a hot water cylinder” ~ Blue Moon ~ by Annie Desantis
The focal piece is cut, hammered and folded from an old hot water cylinder. It has layers and layers of pigments and wax giving it luminosity.
It is attached to hammered reclaimed copper, threaded with beads that have been cut and hammered from old refrigerator pipe, and coloured with pigments and wax.
Factory waste sari silk that has been wrapped in pure silver wire attaches round the back of the piece, and a focal bead of howlite, threaded with a silver nail hangs to one side.
“I used to be a hot water cylinder” ~ Blue Moon Neckpiece closeup ~ by Annie Desantis
Art and Jewelry created from recycled and transformed materials
