This project is about patinating copper. If copper is exposed to the environment it slowly becomes brown and green. In traditional metalworking it is a common technique to colour copper by different brine solutions. I try to combine the natural and the artificial way of patinating.
Therefore, I built a device: The patinating-solution drops consistently onto a copper object. As in the case of natural patina, the environment is also included here. The object is set in a pendulum motion by the wind. Thereby the patina drops, depending on the wind force on the object – in light winds more in the middle, in stronger winds on the outside. According to the place, the weather and the time of this process, different patterns emerge.
To display the character of the process I created a series of three vases built from two hand-chased bowls welded together. Every vase is unique – the form as well as the patination. The large surface reveals the patination-pattern created by the difference of the wind force. They stand wobbly to remember the pendulum motion. And the hole for the glass tube is placed in the north to see the wind direction afterwards.
