Copper Etching With Ferric Chloride - a Beautiful Process

 

My friends wanted to try out their hacked camera and vintage lenses, so I took them to the boatyard where I grew up, and showed them some of my jewellery making techniques.


I use the chemicals commonly used to make circuit boards at home, but draw designs free-hand to create textured metal to use in my jewellery.

Set to a dreamlike song by Roger Paul Mason from Brooklyn based band Jets and Snakes, the result is a mini-documentary/music video showing the creation of an etched copper button.
(For the Camera enthusiasts:

The video was shot using a hacked Panasonic Lumix GH2 - the sleeper hit of the indie camera world - an ultrabright vintage manual f1.4 50mm Pentax-M lens and Panasonic's superbright micro four thirds wide lens 20mm f1.7 lens.
The camera hack (by Russian hacker Vitaliy Kiselev) unlocks higher bitrate settings in the camera)