Where does inspiration come from? It comes on glass wings in the night, flapping and fluttering toward the light.
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This is another post-view instead of a preview. I made these pieces in June and they were all claimed through my online shop and sent to their new homes but I wanted to post some images of them here on my journal because I like a visual record of my work to exist in this space.
There’s not much of a story behind these designs. I listened to a podcast about cicadas and then researched cicadas online and decided to saw out a sterling cicada wing. A couple days later I woke up to LITERALLY hundreds of thousands of moths covering my house. It was an Old Testament plague of moths…nightmarish. Then I rode one of my horses in the high country and we were fluttered all over by swallowtails as we moved through clouds of wildflowers and sunshine. It was beautiful. I found myself really into bug wings for a bit. This little series is the result. I began by sawing one wing and by the end I had sawed many wings and I turned them all into jewels.
This might be my favorite work to roll out of my studio this summer, so far, but summer is only half over! There was plenty of quiet magic and wisp and lightness to these pieces.
Thank you if you claimed a Glasswing from me in necklace or earring form. I hope they’re carrying you well.
Lovely story, lovely bits of jewel’d glass wings from your hands and your heart.
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So beautiful! The world is so heavy right now, and these are so light. I’m fasting from social media until the fall, and I’m going to turn all of my focus here – my home, my children, my husband, my ducks and kitties. Finally finish crocheting my daughter’s blanket. Go backwards instead of forwards. I miss the days before social media. My ramblings have nothing to do with your post, except to say thank you for still blogging here! I miss the days of blogs. I sound like an old lady! I’m getting there…
I read your last posts on your IG and I wanted to say that I fell bad for what happened to you. It is not easy to write something nice as you are a great writer so It sounds a bit flat but I guess I am not the only who thinks you are a fabulous human being and I am glad that people like you exists on this planet otherwise it would be awful. Your life is beautiful, your way of life, your jewellery, your pictures, your relationship with nature etc…the list goes on…..you are a really fabulous person and…that’s all I wanted to say.