Have you ever watched a small stream of water hit a puddle? It forms a sort of cup-shaped splash in the center of concentric waves. Larkin fabricated this little sculpture to capture that moment in sterling silver!
To make the slow-motion-liquid-flowy-goodness of the water drip and cup-shaped splash, Larkin melted silver in a crucible and carefully poured it into a bucket of water. It took *a lot* of pours (each one setting off all of our fire alarms 😅) before they succeeded in getting the shapes they were hoping for.
They finished off the piece by mounting it on hand fabricated concentric circles of silver, just like the ripples in a pond.
This photo of actual water by Nadezhda Vasilieva shows the effect Larkin was going for. 💧💦
