Project Tag: metal 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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Heliodiscus Phacodiscus DMO Earrings Titanium & Argentium
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The earrings were inspired by the microscopic sea creatures in Ernst Haeckel’s radiolarian drawings from 1862 of a zooplankton. Hand drawn, laser cut, hand finished3.5 cm diameter x 6.5 cm x 0.7 cm Titanium front layer and argentium silver back layer. Stainless steel fasteners with handmade sterling silver spacers and niobium ear wires. Argentium sterling silver…
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Snowflake Coral Series
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The idea for a snowflake coral series came to me as I was observing the invasive coral species while SCUBA diving in the Hawaiian Islands. Focusing on the tiny coral animal, the polyp, meant I’d need to magnify it’s scale. The earring designs began as hand drawings. The digitized drawings were converted into CAD drawings,…
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Snowflake Coral Polyps Colonizing
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Earrings Recycled Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel Fasteners 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.4 inch Snowflake coral polyps building layers as the colony grows Click here to read about the Snowflake Coral Series design process and inspiration
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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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“Appropriated Adornment” Online Juried Exhibition
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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…
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Radiolarian C. H. Muller
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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…
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Prototype Impetus Collosphaera Spinosa DMO
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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…
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Collosphaera Cordova DMO
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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…