Brooch-pendant with red offcut suede from a San Francisco leather artist
Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Red
Argentium sterling silver, recycled leather, stainless steel
Hand drawn, laser cut, hand finished
Pendant/Brooch: 1.9” diameter x 0.6” (4.9 cm diameter x 1.4 cm)
Siphonophorae Necklace: 16” opening x 0.3” (41 cm opening x 0.8 cm)
Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Red began with hand drawings based on Ernst Haeckel’s 1862 illustrations of microscopic sea creatures. Mental deconstruction of the zooplankton during the hand drawing phase morphed the creatures into flat layers which would later become a 3D form. CAD software ingested the layer drawings and was used to further modify and output individual layer files for a laser cutting machine. Each rough-cut sterling silver layer was hand textured and finished before the Radiolaria was rebuilt with industrially produced stainless steel screws and nuts. Offcut red suede from a local leather artist sandwiched between 2 of the 3 layers adds another hand formed element.
The siphonophorae and crustacean joint inspired necklace was hand formed of square wire articulating legs jointed with stainless steel industrial fasteners.
