Monthly Archives: October 2021

1.5″ x 1″, glass and found objects

Oh, the good old days when we could just hop on a plane and travel the world with no second thoughts… well, other than how much it would cost, whether we could take the time off work, how many days of school the kids could miss, what vaccines we would need, how to deal with jet lag and how to pass hours on an airplane with wriggly little ones.  I’ve been missing traveling during these 20 months of pandemic, and I remembered that my coin collection, full of memories and plans, is a way to connect to places around the world that I can’t visit right now. This pendant features a Japanese coin, representing one of the many places I’d love to visit some day.

1″ x 1.5″, glass

There’s been an unseasonably warm streak this week, and when I walk outside the moist air and the flowers that are still blooming trick me into thinking that it might be spring instead of fall.  But that’s just wishful thinking.  I pulled out some of springtime colors and cut them into springtime shapes to make this pendant. I even tricked myself into thinking that winter might not be right around the corner!

1″ diameter, resistors and LED

As soon as I made loops on the ends of the resistors and put them in a circle I realized that they look like all the illustrations of how soap works, with its hydrophilic and hydrophobic ends making a big bubble to carry off germs.  So there you go: yet another tech/art/public health pendant!  It’s my kind of resistance.

1″ x 1.5″, glass beads

After making a stained glass window for friends that used the negative space as an image, I’ve been looking for images in the space around things. It’s a visual exercise I haven’t done since elementary school, and it’s definitely a metaphor for how to look around the edges and behind all the negativity that’s at the forefront during the pandemic and the general state of the world.  This pendant is a play on carefully-carved white cameos, and is a reminder that what’s left alone is often the most beautiful.