Project Tag: sterling silver
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The Earring Show 2022
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…
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Snowflake Coral Travels Brooch-Pendant
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…
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Snowflake Coral Polyps Traveling
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.
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Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Teal
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. …
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Collosphaera Huxleyi Müller DMO Trio Blue
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…
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Coastal Bounty at ZFolio Gallery Monterey
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…
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Snowflake Coral Polyps Earrings Red Reaching
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
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Argentium Sterling Heliodiscus Phacodiscus Earrings
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
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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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…