Project Tag: functional art
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Snowflake Coral Polyps White Reaching
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Titanium and recycled leather Stainless steel fasteners with handmade niobium ear wires Hand drawn, laser cut, hand finished 6.5 x 3.6 x 0.5 cm Inspired by the invasive snowflake coral species now seen more often in the waters of the Hawaiian Islands. The species is spread by cargo ships and has no natural predators in…
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Argentium Sterling Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Earrings
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Inspired by the microscopic sea creatures in Ernst Haeckel’s radiolarian drawings from 1862. Hand drawn, laser cut, hand finished 3.5 cm diameter x 6.5 cm x 0.7 cm Argentium sterling silver layers. Stainless steel fasteners with handmade sterling silver spacers and niobium ear wires. Argentium silver is a low tarnish sterling silver. Niobium is a hypo-allergenic metal.…
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Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching Teal
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Earrings Recycled Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel Fasteners, Recycled Suede, Niobium Ear Wires 2.1 x 1.3 x 0.2 inch Click here to read about the inspiration and design process for the Snowflake Coral Series
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Volcanic Collosphaera Huxleyi, Müller DMO
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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…
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Seaweed Wrap
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Hand formedCuff braceletRecycled sterling silverNFS 15 x 9.5 x 9 cm Held in place via a light tension fit and by the bracelet form surrounding the wrist Inspired by the elegantly swaying fronds of a kelp forest in Monterey, California
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The Earth Is Our Ashtray
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Recycled fine silver and recycled copper Hand formed, flame patina 82 x 220 x 240 cm