1”x1”, found objects
As summer draws to a close I’m seeing less and less bees, but I know they’re still out there, making honey and pollinating flowers. I was trying to explain to my daughter recently why it’s so terrible that the bee population is shrinking. Our health is linked to the health of the bees, so this pendant celebrates both bees and honey, with imagery and colors that remind me of sweetness.
glass and ceramic, 1”x1”
I’ve been thinking about the ways that rain can force me to pause and take a little bit of a breath. Whether it’s a soccer practice being rained out that gives us an unexpected hour and a half, or a rainstorm that means we choose to drive instead of taking the bus and we end up listening to a good story on the radio, it can create pockets of calm. I’m going to try my best to hold onto this idea as the sun fades and the winter sets in. The ceramic in this pendant is broken to look like the small stones that get kicked up by the rain, and the glass and mirror catch the light like raindrops.
Mixed media, 1/2”x2”
Things change. When I’m feeling secure I can adjust, change the plan, and still end up somewhere near where I wanted to be. When I’m less sure I have a lot more trouble adjusting. In this pendant the small beads flow like water around the large glass obstacles.
Glass and ceramic, 1/4”x2”
On a walk through the woods during our camping trip this summer we found mushrooms of every color of the rainbow reaching up from the musty ground. They were beautiful, but there’s something more elemental about the color green reaching up from the brown earth. This simple pendant uses glass and ceramic tile, murky and imperfect like leaves and moss, to show the color progressions of brown earth to green growth. I like the fact that this pendant is small. Even small changes count.