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A quick selection of some of the finished Recycled Paper Earrings, some sold already! I thought of calling this collection the 'Sanskrit' series, as most feature strips of paper from an old book on Hindu iconology I saved from a fire in Oakland a long time ago...
These pendants made their debut at the Santa Fe Recycle Show and marveled people with their lightness and fun spin. They did not sell (yet), but some earrings did leave my booth with happy customers. Recycled Paper Tube Pendant 003, Recycled Matchbox Paper Pendant 005, and Recycled Paper Tube Pendant 004, all out of recycled paper printer rolls, matchboxes and strips of paper from books and magazines I have been collecting for years and finally found some fun recycle ideas and transformed them into jewelry! These pendants are all different, they hang on a black brass bead chain and are signed, dated and numbered. I got really excited for new work to coincide with the Santa Fe Recycle Show (in just about 10 days!) and this is now my first priority. Been super busy with recycled paper jewelry projects and overwhelmed with all the possibilities...time, as always, is too short. Old matches paper boxes, strips of paper from magazines and old books (these date back from my Sanskrit and Indian Arts studies...maybe I should call these the Sanskrit series?) shaping it all into pendants and earrings. Every piece unique, I am just flowing with the flow here. Materials and tools, main aid the old press inherited from my grandfather (I remember seeing it as a child sitting on an old oak table in his lawyer office, walls filled with books and 'pratiche' (clients files) he would organize, press and bound with strings in alphabetical order on floor to ceiling shelves. Such a precious gift, a collector's item, a sturdy, high quality piece of equipment I am so grateful to have! Been deep into fall cleaning, reviewed, retired, put together a flash fall sale on a few things...and a fresh start is underway. Pulled out and finally finished some old work from (wait for it...) 1991! But I always work in cycles and often revisit older work to turn it into new. Completed a couple of pendants and a couple of earrings looking forward to the upcoming Santa Fe Recycle Show in November, and had fun shooting some pictures with my new phone. Nothing is live online yet, but planning to launch in a few weeks. Below a couple of the very first finished pieces, black and white newspaper cuttings on cardboard core.    Stained Brooches: initial series from decades ago, stains and marks on silver, brass and copper. some of these sold at jeweler's werk galerie/dc, but I can't remember when.  Stained Brooches: all these pieces were very limited production, made just 4 of these, similar but all different, signed and dated on the back. This is a flat donut shape in stained silver. I know the w(h)earabouts of 2 of them, and I traded 1 for a beautiful dark red coat full of cut-out circles once with a fellow exhibitor at an American Craft Council Show in Baltimore.  One of the recent experiments, the Black+White Graffiti Jewelry line, is one-of-a-kind collection of 8 unique pieces, earrings and a couple of pendants. Now my hands are itching.
I am playing around with initial tests on paper for a new series... I cannot wait to put it all down on metal! This necklace went home last week, just around the corner.. This necklace keeps talking, in a constant dialog with itself.    above, some notes and thoughts, at the time.
now someone else will be listening... enjoy! Short and sweet...how about some cool jewelry to keep things fresh, despite the heat?  Adornment in eye-catching hues...the black and white graffiti collection.
Spirit 2 found its home, at last, early this month. In fact, it all started and ended on a Wednesday, June 1, when this one-of-a-kind necklace was picked up from its display case, almost in a sweeping gesture, by an unassuming customer on a showroom visit. Spirit 2 - Necklace  It all happened so quickly, I did not have time to fully grasp the sudden departure of a beloved piece, the second of a series of 3 unique necklaces, all with the spirit of late summer colors in mind. Back from the earliest playful experiments and through the years, evolution and simple variations on a theme, always and forever late summer colors mood.
And now there is number 3, medley of copper and silver elements with heat hues and splashes of black patina to play with along a bead silver chain in colorful arrangements. Spirit 3 Necklace  Not much into hearts, but have made a few in the years past. Looking into my slide folders (remember those?), I just re-discovered a full selection of them, earrings and pins and pendant and necklaces...Played around a bit with a cheap slide scanning app on my phone and here's a couple of shots, all sold long ago.
And then there is this one, possibly the most precious of them all. Sister to the copper one above and the only one left from my hearts experiments, this is a stunning necklace with strong impact. It has a heart pierced in sterling silver, it has that bite in warm yellow 18k gold to accentuate the piece with memory, and it all hangs from a sterling silver snake chain, with a sterling silver toggle&bar clasp for no-fuss wearing.
Try and play and dare a bit! We made it to the end of another year, dense, intense, complicated, so stressful at times... So now we play: lots of fun with these Play Rings! |
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I make simple, colorful and bold jewelry for a contemporary ageless and fun style. Have been doing this for quite sometime...pretty sure this is what I want to do when I grow up! Here I jot down thoughts and notes and pictures of work in the making, both in my mind, on paper and on the bench. for bench updates and exclusive previews... archives
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