The Chest-Adornment

After the creation of my two arm pieces I decided to go bigger and create a piece of body adornment which takes its two main pieces of inspiration from the technique of fold forming. Which has appeared through out my project and the piece of armour called unsurprisingly a chest-plate. Which where first made out of leather. Later versions where made of bronze, iron and steel, even after the invention of gun powder chest-plates often referred to as a breast-plate where still the best body defence again a melee weapon like a sword or axe.

Unlike the breast-plates of old, my creation is not designed to repel attacks from arrows, swords and any other weapon that you could name. Though it may provide some protection from glancing shots of a sword for example. But many kings and rulers like king Henry 8th of England had sets of armour which where not made with 'combat' in mind but where purely decorative but would still protect you.


It is here where the term 'ceremonial' Armour comes in, a set of armour that is highly decorated and is worn to be looked at and the more elaborate the armour the richer and more influential you where.

    

Strange Ideas

As with many interesting Ideas I've ever had, they always came to me at a time when I was not trying to make something. This piece is simply every piece of fold formed copper, personally I found that it reminded me of ivy or vines over lapping and intertwining.     

This idea came about when some friends of mine where arranging my fold formed piece into a new form. This was the only one that I took a photo of and now wish that I had taken photos of the other arrangements, this reminds me of a lizard or a type of amphibian sticking its long tong out to catch an unsuspecting insect and just to add to he scene I put one of my bronze case leaves under the piece resembling a caterpillar.