SHERRY CORDOVA JEWELRY

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  • Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching Red Earrings

    Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching Red Earrings

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    Sherry Cordova

    Recycled Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel Fasteners, Recycled Suede, Niobium Ear Wires 2.1 x 1.4 x 0.2 inch Click here to read about the inspiration and design process for the Snowflake Coral Series

  • Orange Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching

    Orange Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching

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    Sherry Cordova

    EarringsRecycled Sterling Silver, Recycled Dead Stock Hide Leather, Stainless Steel & Niobium Fasteners2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 inch5.8 x 3.8 x 0.5 cmweight each 0.17 oz (4.8 gm) Snowflake coral polyps create a hard structure which has an orange hue The earrings were part of the juried exhibit + sale “The Earring Show 2022” at…

  • Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching in the Current

    Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching in the Current

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    Sherry Cordova

    Earrings Recycled Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel & Niobium Fasteners 2.4 x 1.4 x 0.2 inch Snowflake coral polyps reaching to invade more shores Click here to read about the inspiration and design process for the Snowflake Coral Series

  • “Appropriated Adornment” Online Juried Exhibition

    “Appropriated Adornment” Online Juried Exhibition

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    Sherry Cordova

    A pair of my earrings is part of the Society of North American Goldsmiths newest online exhibition “Appropriated Adornment”. The free to access exhibition centers around Historical Appropriation. Click here to see my earrings in the exhibit You may read more about my inspirations for the earrings, and also click around the exhibition web page…

  • Stay Tuned

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    Sherry Cordova

    check back for more announcements of upcoming shows

  • Radiolarian C. H. Muller

    Radiolarian C. H. Muller

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    Sherry Cordova

    Necklace Electrolytic etched, hand formed Recycled sterling silver, stainless steel 47 x 49 x 9 mm The necklace represents a Collosphaera Huxleyi Müller radiolarian, a microscopic sea creature which I’ve scaled up to bring attention to it and the wearer. The radiolarian is based on one of Ernst Haeckel’s drawings in his 1862 book “Art…

  • Radiolarian Trio C.H. Müller

    Radiolarian Trio C.H. Müller

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    Sherry Cordova

    Necklace Electrolytic etched, hand formed Recycled sterling silver, stainless steel 4.4 x 4.5 x 0.9 cm (1.7 x 1.8 x 0.3″) The necklace represents a Collosphaera Huxleyi Müller radiolarian, a microscopic sea creature which I’ve scaled up to bring attention to it and the wearer. The radiolarian is based on one of Ernst Haeckel’s drawings…

  • Prototype Impetus Collosphaera Spinosa DMO

    Prototype Impetus Collosphaera Spinosa DMO

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    Sherry Cordova

    Art Object Electrolytic etched, hand formed Brass, nickel silver, copper 5.5 cm diameter x 1.1 cm The prototype piece to determine if breakthrough etching was a viable process for bringing the Radiolaria Series to life. Based on Ernst Haeckel’s drawing of this microscopic sea creature which sat on my workbench for years as I mulled…

  • Collosphaera Cordova DMO

    Collosphaera Cordova DMO

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    Sherry Cordova

    PendantReversibleElectrolytically etched, hand formed Recycled sterling silver, stainless steel5 cm diameter x 0.7 cm (2 x 2 x 0.3″) Imaginary companion to the microscopic sea organisms drawn by Ernst Haeckel in 1862 at the Strait of Messina. Reversible pendant. The stainless steel fasteners act as scaffolding for the deconstructed creature, and double as a hidden…

  • Volcanic Collosphaera Huxleyi, Müller DMO

    Volcanic Collosphaera Huxleyi, Müller DMO

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    Sherry Cordova

    Necklace Electrolytically etched, hand formed Recycled sterling silver, stainless steel 5.3 x 5.4 x 1 cm Volcanic human induced eruptions have modified the surface of the microscopic sea organism drawn by Ernst Haeckel in 1862 at the Strait of Messina. The stainless steel fasteners act as scaffolding for the deconstructed creature, and double as a…