This is what I have.
I give it to you.
Is it enough?
[sterling, 14 karat gold, pearls, labradorite]
100% handcrafted.
All things delicate and heavy.
100% handcrafted.
All things delicate and heavy.
Today when I finally fell into work in the studio I had to set all projects aside and simply create from my heart for a bit. This necklace is a result of 100% improvisation. I didn’t plan the design. I didn’t sketch anything. I didn’t take any measurements. I just wanted to pour myself into the metal, stone and flame and eventually see a result. I didn’t imagine this necklace would turn out this way, so ethereal, so heavy, so musical, so light, so SO so organic. When I look at it, I think to myself:
Of course this is the way it turned out.
This necklace is a direct representation of where you are at in this exact moment.
It was created without intention without a direct plan.
It was created with arbitrary movements, flames swinging in graceful arcs, hammer strikes, fusion, small welds…
It looks like the inside of your pockets.
It looks like the inside of your mind.
It looks like the inside of your heart.
Bric-a-brac, thumb tack, tithes, offerings, flight, discomfort, sadness, belief, truth, reactions, revelations,
stream of consciousness,
stream of sterling…
I love improvisational work, nothing feels freer or truer.
It can be hard to let go, to be free, to be true.
This kind of work is a purge, a release of all those things I’ve been squeezing tight in my fists.
Sometimes I fear what will show itself.
Occasionally I scare myself.
But it’s the purest offering I can give;
in the end it’s the best way I know how to say thanks;
a careful unveiling and and then
to stand
in the light.