Project Tag: contemporary jewelry
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Turtle Excluder Device
Recycled sterling silver Cast, hand finished 3.5 x 2.2 x 2.5 cm, size 5 US The light fun ring pays homage to the Turtle Excluder Device (TED) which can be used by shrimp trawlers to save some of the thousands of turtles which are killed each year in shrimp trawling nets. In one of the…
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Collosphaera Huxleyi, Müller DMO Octo Earrings
Sterling silver, stainless steel Electrolytic etch, hand formed 3.2 cm diameter x 0.6 cm each A microscopic sea creature was design modified and deconstructed into 3 layers to represent the industrialization and mutations of even tiny sea creatures due to human effects on the environment. Stainless steel nuts and bolts are the scaffolding that holds…
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Impetus: Collosphaera Spinosa DMO
Necklace Electrolytic etched, hand formed Recycled sterling silver, stainless steel 5.3 cm diameter x 0.6 cm The impetus for the Radiolaria Series. Ernst Haeckel’s drawing of this microscopic sea creature sat on my workbench for years as I mulled over how to create what I’d envisioned in my head in an eco-friendly manner.