When I snapped my hanger I thought to myself, well no use in throwing it away maybe you can find something else to use it for. I was thinking of an art project for a studio class, but when I heard about the sustainable systems fixing a broken object project I knew I had a reason for keeping it! I wasn’t immediately sure what to do with it, would I make it a place for jewelry to hang? photos? sunglasses? scarves? I decided on jewelry and photos, as they were both small and lightweight.

My original idea was to snap off the entire bottom half of the hanger and replace it with wire to hang photos and a few necklaces. After thinking it through though, I realized that keeping part of it would make sure my transformation was more structurally sound and as I snapped part of it away I realized I could make little “shelves” for my jewelry with the snapped hanger parts instead of just hanging everything on wire which could fall off if there wasn’t reinforcement. 

Below is my process:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11l5LfynKZjQgPTg7hEw9AdsmfYVIutjs0Qq_CLsuS-g/edit?usp=sharing

 

In the end, I was very happy with my finished product because I actually find it useless, functional, and aesthetically pleasing. During our class critique a few people commented that my project looked like a product that could be sold in stores which I think would be so cool and I would have purchased before probably if I saw something like this – but the best part about it is that its repaired from a broken object so first I would need to collect broken hangers!