Every year Metal Arts Society of Southern California, or MASSC members get to participate in this fun challenge, where we each get a package of raw materials, and we have to use each one of them somewhere somehow in the piece.⁠ ⁠

These are what came in this year's package and what I turned them into:⁠
Copper sheet → book pages⁠
Copper gallery wire → snail's eyes⁠
Silver bezel wire → cigarette ashes and snail's shell⁠
Brass nails → snails' eyes⁠
Silver tubings → binding rings and snail's body⁠
Rose quartz → snail's shell⁠ ⁠
Addition material: more cooper sheets for 1 extra book page and the other snails' bodies⁠ ⁠

The idea came from children books, the kind where you push the same fuzzy plushie which becomes different things as each page dresses it differently. I always thought it is a very fun and neat idea and now I have created my own version of it!⁠ ⁠

Dedicated to the lost child in you all.
Hey, the answer isn't elsewhere, it is within the resourceful, powerful and magical YOU!⁠ ⁠ Cheers!⁠
🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌⁠

Can’t wait to see what everybody else came up with! Join me!