About a month ago the curator of one of the shops where my jewelry is sold asked me to make a handful of found object pieces. She wanted merchandise to compliment a show of "Extreme Materials" at the art museum.
Humph, I thought, that's going to be a challenge for me.
Don't get me wrong, I love found objects. In jewelry and otherwise. Orphans, misfits, fragments and do-bobs. My house is full of all kinds of odd things I have dragged home from estate sales. Who else do you know that has a big flock of old, crumbling cement chicken in their entry hall?
But in my jewelry?
I started with one of my standards, a big glass heart on a cord. I make about a jillion of these.
This one is transparent pink with a thin encasing of Double Helix's golden metallic glass called Aurae.
To the bottom of the necklace I added a big hand-hammered figure eight of sterling silver with a chunk of smoky topaz in the center. Then a little, old sterling star charm and a battered, gold washed men's ring engraved "Ed."
I bought the ring at Ed's estate sale.
Dear Ed: you may be dead but your ring lives on.
Hope you don't mind.
Don't get me wrong, I love found objects. In jewelry and otherwise. Orphans, misfits, fragments and do-bobs. My house is full of all kinds of odd things I have dragged home from estate sales. Who else do you know that has a big flock of old, crumbling cement chicken in their entry hall?
But in my jewelry?
This one is transparent pink with a thin encasing of Double Helix's golden metallic glass called Aurae.
I bought the ring at Ed's estate sale.
Dear Ed: you may be dead but your ring lives on.
Hope you don't mind.
2 comments:
I'm sure Ed doesn't mind, it's beautiful. And using found objects, you've done it before with the Mexican Voodoo, I cherish those little pendants... :)))
Wow. Stunning use of color.
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