Project Tag: Sherry Cordova

  • Heliodiscus Phacodiscus DMO Earrings Titanium & Argentium

    Heliodiscus Phacodiscus DMO Earrings Titanium & Argentium

    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…

  • Autumn Selections Exhibition

    Autumn Selections Exhibition

    Two pairs of Snowflake Coral earrings were in the Autumn Selections exhibition at the Vargas Gallery in Santa Clara, California. Autumn Selections was an Exhibition of Jewelry and Small Sculpture by artists of the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild. The show ran from September 15, 2018 – October 31, 2018. Master metal smiths Lynda Watson and…

  • Snowflake Coral Polyps Colonizing

    Snowflake Coral Polyps Colonizing

    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

  • Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching Teal

    Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching Teal

    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

  • Collosphaera Cordova DMO

    Collosphaera Cordova DMO

    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…

  • Volcanic Collosphaera Huxleyi, Müller DMO

    Volcanic Collosphaera Huxleyi, Müller DMO

    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…

  • Breaking Waves Ring

    Breaking Waves Ring

    Recycled sterling silver Hand formed Inspired by the waves breaking near West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz, California

  • Onshore Wave

    Onshore Wave

    Recycled sterling silver Hand formed 4.5 x 2 x 0.3 cm, size 6 US Inspired by the waves hitting the shore near West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz, California

  • Turtle Excluder Device

    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…

  • Impetus: Collosphaera Spinosa DMO

    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.