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Project Tag: sterling silver

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Heliodiscus Phacodiscus DMO Earrings Titanium & Argentium

    Heliodiscus Phacodiscus DMO Earrings Titanium & Argentium

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    Sherry Cordova

    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

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    Sherry Cordova

    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 Pendant

    Snowflake Coral Pendant

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    Sherry Cordova

    Recycled Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel Fasteners 2.6 x 1.5 x 0.2 inch Two layer pendant with a laser cut snowflake coral polyp and a laser scribed snowflake coral polyp Click here to read about the design process and inspiration for the Snowflake Coral Series

  • Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching

    Snowflake Coral Polyps Reaching

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    Sherry Cordova

    Recycled Sterling Silver,  Coral Recycled Suede, Stainless Steel Fasteners, Niobium Ear Wires 2.5 x 1.4 x 0.2 inch Snowflake coral polyps reaching to invade more shores Click here to read about the design process and inspiration for the Snowflake Coral Series