Monthly Archives: September 2022

1″ x 1.25″, found objects

So much of my work is slow and plodding.  Step by small step projects come together, and prevention initiatives almost never show forward progress, usually just helping us avoid collective backsliding.  But sometimes I work on something for long enough that I can see a small change.  The piece at the bottom of this pendant is a cursive “L” from an old printing press.  I love the perspective of looking at it from the side; the whole bulk of the piece and the whole apparatus that stands behind it, just to support that tiny curvy raised surface touching ink and then the paper.  Such a big effort for such a small mark.  But when you put many letters together their power is tremendous.

1″ x 1.5″, found objects

I was on an airplane this week, and at a party. I was even at two different outdoor meetings with real people!  There’s still a hesitancy   around handshakes and hugs, and we did get an email after one of the meetings to say that someone there tested positive for COVID, but it feels like we’re slowly filling in the 6-foot gaps that we’ve been maintaining for the last two years.  This pendant, made from super cool rivets that I found at a super cool creative reuse center in Seattle, shows the view from above as we start to move together inch by inch.

1″ x 1.5″, glass and found objects

As an alternative to crystal, the modern material to gift on a 15th anniversary is a watch, representing all the time we’ve spent together.  As we breezed through our anniversary in a  place where I could finally take break from looking at my watch and just relax, I decided that better than a working clock to represent our time together, would be one of the faces from the watches I’ve disassembled.  This watch pendant, with no mechanism, is truly timeless.

.5″ 1.5″, found objects

This week is my 15th wedding anniversary, and I looked up the material that’s supposed to be exchanged. It turns out it’s crystal, to represent “pure and sparkling love”.  I appreciate that this year’s sparkle is supposed to come from glass, not from a precious stone or metal.  And goodness knows I love working with lead and glass, so leaded crystal should be a shoe-in.  But what I found for the pendant is even simpler cut glass.  Costume jewelry is more my style, so this is a costume jewelry nod to our anniversary and a recognition that sparkle doesn’t have to come with a high price!