Silicon Valley includes three bracelets constructed from recycled tins and vintage circuit boards displayed in a custom made wooden fruit crate. The fruit on the bracelets represents the fertile valleys of California as well as the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of California. California exports both produce and ideas from within its fertile valleys.
Recycled tin containers, vintage circuit boards, 10k gold rivets, aluminum rivets.
Available for purchase or exhibition as shown here. The bracelets and fruit crate are one piece.
Silicon Valley Bracelets are made of post-consumer materials including tin cans and circuit boards, reflecting California’s consumer culture and status as a leader in the recycling movement and green design.
Watch Fabrication of Silicon Valley from California Collection to see Harriete saw and manipulate the circuit boards used for the bracelets.
In the above photo, the green and ivory-colored surface are vintage circuit boards that are not longer available. It was amazing good fortune that my studio assistant found them on the streets of San Francisco when we were working on this piece.
The “beads” on the bottom of the bracelets are a combination of printed beads on tin and transistors that look like beads.
The fruit crate symbolically represents the historic fertility of California’s valleys bountiful with fruits and vegetables. Orchards that once covered Silicon Valley, now bloom with inventions and enterprising ventures.
A vintage fruit crate label "Great Valley” (shown below) served as inspiration for the Silicon Valley Fruit Crate Label constructed from recycled tin cans, and vintage circuit boards.
Valley of vegetables made from computer circuit boards and transiters. (close-up below.)
Silicon Valley Bracelets
Silicon Valley has been shown in these previous exhibitions:
Radical Alchemy, Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth, Virginia
Craft In America Galleries, Curator Carolyn Benesh, Los Angles, California
Crafting a Legacy, Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee