SHERRY CORDOVA JEWELRY

Project Tag: recycled silver

  • The Earring Show 2022

    The Earring Show 2022

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    Sherry Cordova

    Juried Exhibit + Sale: Annual Fundraiser for the Craft Council British Columbia inVancouver, BC, Canada. Three pairs of my Snowflake Coral Polyp earrings were in this exhibition + sale of wearable sculptural art by 90 international artists. The hybrid event ran May 5 – June 30, 2022. Contact Craft Council BC directly tel:+1-604-687-7270 or via…

  • Snowflake Coral Travels Brooch-Pendant

    Snowflake Coral Travels Brooch-Pendant

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    Sherry Cordova

    1.5 x 4.3 x 4.3 cmArgentium sterling silver, repurposed suede offcut, stainless steel Snowflake coral polyps travel in the bilge water of ships and invade and overwhelm endemic species in Hawaiian archipelago reefs. Snowflake Coral is predator free in these new environments, upsetting fragile reef ecosystems. The brooch/pendant represents the bilge port hole and water…

  • Snowflake Coral Polyps Traveling

    Snowflake Coral Polyps Traveling

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    Sherry Cordova

    As land traffic quieted down in 2020, ocean shipping traffic increased. Snowflake Coral, an opportunistic hitchhiking animal, travels from port to port in the bilge water of ships. Bilge water released at a ship’s destination spreads the polyps who quietly invade and colonize new ports and defenseless reefs.

  • Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Teal

    Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Teal

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    Sherry Cordova

    Brooch / PendantArgentium sterling silver, recycled suede, stainless steel 3.5 cm diameter x 0.7 cm Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Teal Brooch-Pendant 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. …

  • Collosphaera Huxleyi Müller DMO Trio Blue

    Collosphaera Huxleyi Müller DMO Trio Blue

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    Sherry Cordova

    Brooch / PendantRecycled Argentium Sterling Silver, Recycled Suede, Stainless Steel 1.3 x 1.2 x 0.3” (3.3 x 3.1 x 0.8 cm) Collosphaera Huxleyi Müller DMO Trio Blue 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…

  • Circogonia-Epibulia II on Siphonophorae Necklace

    Circogonia-Epibulia II on Siphonophorae Necklace

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    Sherry Cordova

    The necklace was sold at the ACCI Gallery in Berkeley, California as part of the “Forge the Future” exhibit + sale which ended Nov 7, 2021 Circogonia-Epibulia II Brooch / Pendant on Siphonophorae Necklace Recycled Argentium Sterling Silver, Recycled Sterling Silver, Stainless SteelHand drawn, laser cut, hand finished 2.25” diam x 0.5” (4.7 x 1.3…

  • Circogonia-Epibulia

    Circogonia-Epibulia

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    Sherry Cordova

    SOLD Brooch / pendant. Recycled Argentium sterling silver & stainless steel. Hand drawn, laser cut & hand formed. 5.5 cm diameter x 1.4 cm  Features of microscopic radiolaria were enlarged hundreds of times to be visible to the human eye. The brooch/pendant is based on two of Ernst Haeckel’s 1862 drawings, a Circogonia and an Epibulia. The pendant/brooch…

  • Coastal Bounty at ZFolio Gallery Monterey

    Coastal Bounty at ZFolio Gallery Monterey

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    Sherry Cordova

    Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild presented the “Coastal Bounty” gallery exhibition  Nov 30, 2018 to January 2, 2019. ZFolio is one of MBMAG’s favorite places to exhibit with it’s beautiful setting, and friendly, knowledgeable and helpful staff. Everyone was welcome to join the artists and gallerists at the free artists reception the afternoon of Sunday…

  • Snowflake Coral Polyps Earrings Red Reaching

    Snowflake Coral Polyps Earrings Red Reaching

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    Sherry Cordova

    Snowflake Coral Polyps Earrings Red Reaching created with argentium sterling silver and recycled hide leather, with niobium ear wires and stainless steel fasteners by Sherry Cordova Jewelry

  • Argentium Sterling Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Earrings

    Argentium Sterling Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Earrings

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    Sherry Cordova

    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.…