"To feed a person on your left, on your right and in front of you at the same time".
The creation of my spoon was a complicated one.
It took a little imagination and pun exploring to finally settle on the name “The Three Muskescoops”. After which, it required research and planning to decide what form the spoon should take. In relations to its name, the spoon hence bore a form similar to a Rapier.
Of course there were times where I almost cried.. Seeing how hard it was to handle wires in general, bending them into tiny loops or moulding them into fluid shapes. It was harder having to create 3-dimensional forms, while keeping the dimensions of the structure 1:1 to an actual spoon. A miscalculation from coiling the wires around the structure’s skeleton could cause the whole structure to become asymmetrical and messy.
The hardest part of the structure was definitely the guard (semi-sphere above the handle). It contained a lot of criss-crossing of wires and the entire section had to be very sturdy so as to support all the spoons branching out from it, as well as the handle. If a wire was bent or coiled wrongly, I immediately cut it away and redid it. Maybe that was also why I had to keep re-buying wires from Art Friend...$$
Lino Plate
After illustrating the label for the spoon, I reversed it and transferred it onto a lino plate before carving the illustration out.
Lino Print (Die Cut)
Thank you!
