Handmade with labradorite and 100% recycled sterling silver.
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Labradorite is such a luminous stone that it sparks my imagination. Luminous pendant. Handmade with labradorite and 100% recycled sterling silver. Soon in my online shop. When I make my second piece of the week, I always carefully observe the first. I want them to have a common thread: it could be the stone (as it was in the Moonstone series), or it could be a theme (as were branches –or connected lines– in last week’s tourmaline quartz series). If I want to explore several un-related ideas, then the stone will be the shared element. When an idea is rich enough to be developed in several pieces, I will choose that instead. The pieces I have made so far, have densely chiseled backgrounds that contrast with smooth, raised triangles. Their reptilian quality reminds me of Quetzalcóatl, the feathered serpent deity worshiped in ancient Mexico Today's piece, is the result of a wrestling match between metal, and will power. Wielded pendant. Handmade with labradorite and 100% recycled sterling silver. Soon in my online shop. What’s it like to create something new everyday? It is exhilarating and terrifying to stand on the thin line that separates discovery from failure. Anemone ring. Handmade with tourmaline quartz and 100% recycled sterling silver. Soon in my online shop. Today’s ring looks like an iced heart on fire. It also looks like a lion’s mane, but what I most see, is a source from which many streams flow. Source ring. Handmade with tourmaline quartz and 100% recycled sterling silver. Soon in my online shop. I was with some friends in a coffee shop in Paris during my twenties, when one of them remarked, “Jennifer is an observer, she hardly ever speaks.” To which an older friend replied, “elle achète, après, elle vend,” which means: she buys, later, she will sell. This frase has been coming back to me, as I slowly crawl out of my creative closet and begin to use my voice. Crystallized ring. Handmade with tourmaline quartz and 100% recycled sterling silver. Soon in my online shop. Today I realized that the ring I was about to finish was not going to work. It was already 2 pm, and I only had a few hours to make something better. Rushed and stressed, I stopped and took a deep breath. The reason I am making a jewelry piece a day –I reminded myself– is to have the pleasure of making a piece a day. Rushing to finish it makes no sense at all. Stressing about the outcome, removes the joy I get from playing around and discovering something new. So I let go, and began again. This time, I did not follow a sketch, nor did I have any idea of what I’d make. I looked closely at the quartz I was going to work with, and noticed the inner filaments of black tourmaline. They made me think of windswept fields, so I decided to work with wire to create that image. The resulting ring has movement, and feels slightly Art Deco. Turned upside down, it also looks like a jelly fish –which I can appreciate, because there are days when I feel I am swimming underwater, and there are others where I move like a gust of wind. Windswept ring. Handmade with tourmaline quartz and 100% recycled stelring silver. Soon in my online shop. Imagination will take you deep into the wilderness. Lush ring. Handmade with tourmaline quartz and 100% recycled sterling silver. Soon in my online shop. |
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