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Keep testing the ground of renewed outdoor little events, this one was last month at the ArtWalk Santa Fe Desert Party. Music was very loud (hence my grimacing face) and we got rained on a bit, but I made it through it! Can't remember who took these shots, but you can see some new Recycled Paper Magnets in the back... And these two shots from the El Zaguan event on Canyon Road, the garden was a beautiful colorful refuge, just a level above my booth setup, but forgot to take some pictures.
But anyway, work on display with a full collection of Recycled Paper Earrings swinging in the summer breeze and the Recycled Paper Magnets in prominent position. One of the new venues I am trying is ArtWalk Santa Fe, a series of events throughout the city. This one was at Cafecito, a hip cafe hidden behind a busy intersection of not-so-downtown, but a gem of a place and super friendly environment. We set up on the parking lot and it was a fun day! Booth shots and closeup of some Recycled Paper Pendants...
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.  |
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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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