Worlds Collide: Jewelry and Music!

I recently went to my first ukulele camp in Oregon. We played Haydn and Schubert symphonic pieces, Miles Davis, and some more standard fare. In my studio days before Camp, I found myself making tiny ukuleles, and I was surprised to nearly sell out at Camp! 

Meet Babs, Bitsy, Nibs, Kitty, Timmy, and Bubba!

Articulation

I have been thinking about how an articulated design allows for movement by an object or organism that is made of inflexible materials.  This elegant knight's boot is from the armour collection at the Stibbert Museum in Florence, Italy.

I have been working with articulated cone shapes in my sculpture and jewelry, some are spring loaded so that the nipple spring back when depressed. Others are suspended so that they vibrate with vibrations in the room, or move when worn. 

Pitfall Traps

The thing about pitcher plants is that they proudly strut their rotund carnivorous bellies; their "pitfall traps".  Their inviting stipples lips beckon, their skin sweats little droplets, and the pitchers suspend in a cantilevered way. An amalgam of wonderful visual details.

my pitcher plant

  From my recent series of Etheries, includes these pieces, Pfiu and Skaf, which I only just realized borrows many of my favorite details of my Pitcher Plant..... A beckoning, stipple-rimmed, crenolated portal, a voluminous belly containing an entrapped substance that is whirling as if in a state of being digested....

Photo of my Pfiu

   

Photo of my Skaf