Inspirations of the Moment: Touhami and Quantic

Right now I’m feeling Ramdane Touhami and listening to Quantic: I marvel at how something can be so complex yet minimal. Just when you think you’ve classified the genre, it moves on you. Beautiful, really. Also, I’m finished with the dining room (for now), and I’m working on a ring. Yay!
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Random Thoughts On: Gratitude and Dead Bees

Yesterday I went in search of fabric for the dining room chairs. (I’d like to finish my dining room project so I can get back to the studio.) I found my fabric at Stitches, a delightful, indie fabric store in Capitol Hill. The salesperson helped me figure out the yardage and we laughed at my [...]

Bryn Christopher on Grey’s Anatomy Last Night

Last night, on the Grey’s Anatomy season finale, this fabulous, smoky, bluesy song played towards the end of the show. I had to know who the singer was. After brief research, I discovered, on Contactmusic.com, the singer is Bryn Christopher of Birmingham, Alabama. His single, The Quest, is due to be released on June 9, [...]

Notes from the Studio: Neck Ornament with Quail Egg beads

This is my current work in progress, a neck ornament made with recycled materials including paper, high-density polyethylene, polymer clay, and scraps of leftover 24 karat gold leaf. More on the ideas behind this piece later, for now it’s time to get back to work.

Random Thoughts On: Will Ferrell, the future, and trendinistas

I know this video is kind of old, but it still makes me smile. I tend to like things because I like them, not because they’re trendy. In fact I like to stay ahead of or behind the trend curve–I’m usually ahead though, only because I’m a futurist who’s a little addicted to advances in [...]

Resistance To Pretty Things

Postmodernists believe that fine art cannot be pretty. But Gaugin’s delicious color palette, Thiebaud’s creamy brush strokes, Barthé’s mastery of form, and Kiwon Wang’s gorgeous art jewelry–curious juxtapositions of paper and pearls–all lend credibility to the notion that beauty in art is still a relevant pursuit. While I’m deeply interested in aesthetic philosophy, at [...]

One Jewelicious Moment

Jori Spaa at Galerie Rob Koudis examines the relationship between jewelry, as built environment, and the natural world. Sue Dorman at Freehand Gallery takes ABS plastic to a new level. Sergey Jivetin’s Luthiery Study #1 at Andora Gallery: sublime. Single X Bracelet – Yellow by Joe Wood at Mobilia Gallery is stunning and [...]

Notes From The Studio: Art as Process

Last year I went to a workshop where an artist described her art as the process not the product (actually those are my own words, but the artist basically said the same thing, which is why it resonated so deeply with me). I’ve often held that unless you can witness the artist making their work: [...]