Art Review – Deborrah Daher

Deborrah Daher is doing something very interesting. She approaches fine jewelry with an artist’s sensibility, creating handmade, rough-hewn pieces balanced with fluidity of form in traditional jewelry categories like cuff links, earrings, brooches, and tuxedo pins. Fine jewelry, mass produced by machines, has the advantages of perfection and ubiquity. But Daher’s human touch, with its [...]

Notes from the Studio: Jewelry Experiments and the Intersection of Science and Design

I’m feeling a little stressed right now, so I’m using my blog as a pacifier. It’s just that I had so many plans this weekend but apparently my body needed to rest, so I slept most of the weekend. Now it’s Sunday, and I have internal and external deadlines to meet, so off I go.
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Random Thoughts On: Recycling, Ethical Jewelry, and Responsible Mining

Yesterday, I felt pretty good about my status as an ecoist: I rescued a bag of styrofoam from the office trash, and I’m currently shredding the styrofoam to use in a new batch of art beads. It’s amazing how smug and self-satisfied I can feel about some of my environmental decisions and how guilt-ridden I [...]

UTC Time test

It is 3:52 PM PDT. This is a test to see if the time on my blog posts have been fixed.

Notes from the Studio: New Art Beads

Once upon a time I founded an organic perfumery and created lush, custom fragrances from organically-sourced materials. I still use scent in my art making. Recently I finished a batch of hand formed, felted paper beads made from recycled paper and colored with tumeric spice. The beads are in a rough state, and will go [...]