About Techno Japan

During a trip to Japan, Elin wandered around Tokyo delighted by the vertical neon lights.  Her visceral reaction to the lights inspired her to find a way to represent the colourful extravaganza in her art.  Elin turned to plexiglass. Considered an alternative material in jewellery making, plexiglass has bold colours that Elin uses in carefully thought-out combinations to make jewels that inspire playfulness and joy.

Cutting the raw materials

Techno Japan starts out as one sheet of one colour of acrylic. I stack them according to my colour choices and bond them with a solvent. Then I run the stacks through a band saw, very carefully. The following video shows me in this process.

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Adding a boarder, sanding and polishing

Refining the acrylic and polishing it is a labour intensive part of creating techno japan. This video shows that process; cutting a boarder, sanding by hand, with 9 different grits of sandpaper, and polishing on a jeweller's wheel.

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