Jonathan has created a new way of creating drawings in cast metal. Metal is unforgiving and hard to manipulate, Jonathan wanted to find a way of turning his quick pen sketches in to metal drawings in wire. He undertook three months of research to understand how to turn quick free sketches into solid metal.

The process Jonathan created was to create the quick sketches often in response to a particular narrative, for example many works were completed for the TO SORN research project. The sketch was then scanned into the computer before being redrawn using vector lines and turned into pipe using CAD software.

The wires were designed to be thinner than they were deep to allow the lines to stay a very fine wire but have more strength from the depth of them.

The wire drawings were then printed in wax at a high resolution of 0.00053mm and cast using a very complex casting system drawing on previous casting and spring research. This finesses of wire work is only possible through this casting technique and a way of creating strength through each piece has to be calculated. Multiple failures to cast occurred due to pushing the fineness of structure.

The tiara in this research selection has been acquired by the permanent collection of the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas USA.