1″ diameter, found object
My city does its fireworks display a whole week early, and when the weather is perfect, like it was tonight, everyone is out. There’s a line around the block for slushies at the 7-eleven, and the fried dough and the ice cream are flowing. But the best are all the colors as the sky changes from blue to black. This piece is made from another treasure passed on to me, and it has all the beauty and wonder of fireworks in the sky.
1″x1.5″, found objects
With a shift in my work and the beginning of summer, plans changing and plans being made, the question of balance is once again top of mind. I was gifted a bag full of earrings, full of history and the aged metals that I love. The one that found its way into this pendant had a funny sort of balance to it. No symmetry, but a half-hug. Held together with a chain and a bead, it has the kind of precarious balance that I’m feeling right now. Does it work? Yes. Will it work for long? Not sure.
1″ diameter, found objects
Biking may not be the first thing you think of when you see this design, but here’s the back story: from the time I was small, everyone around me has been on a quest to find just the right bike gear. My mom wanted a wide tractor seat for comfort, my dad wanted all the fancy gadgets, my husband wanted an electric bike to transport the kids, and we’ve been on a years-long quest to have the right size bikes for each kid on any given day. If you squint, you’ll see that the center of this pendant looks like a bicycle seat, and it’s got all the fancy bits and pieces to make it just right.
1″ diameter, found objects
Last weekend my son spotted a mama bird sitting on her eggs in a nest above a pathway, and we watched her sit cozily while we walked below. Then this week I was hosted at a graceful, generous, beautiful house in Provincetown with an ocean view. It was so nest-like and comforting that it seemed like there was no reason to leave. And the coper bead that acts as a nest in the pendant came from a thrift store near there, where it was just waiting to become this week’s design.