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Rainbow Bird |
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Very Alice in Wonderland, you have to look at yourself wearing
this in a mirror otherwise the words are reversed.
This is a magic bird. |
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Lost wax cast bronze and sterling silver, fabricated sterling
silver and 14k gold fill wire, calcite, Arizona turquoise, peridot,
crysophase, blue lace agate, pineapple quartz, pink opal, pink quartz dangle
from the beak. |
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15" (hook to first hole) with a 4-1/2" extender
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$1,600 |
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Conception Constellation |
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This is my interpretation of the call of all creation that
rings out across the universe when any life (animal, plant, human) is
conceived. This necklace is so unbelievably beautiful when worn that any
words would hardly do it justice. |
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Lost wax cast sterling silver, fabricated sterling silver and
14k gold. |
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18 inches from hook to last hole
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sold
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It Is The Empty Space Within That Makes It Useful
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From the Zen Buddhist Koan series. The Koan goes on to say:
30 spokes share one hub. It is the empty space within that makes it useful.
A clay vessel. It is the empty space within that makes it useful. And so
on. |
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I did a reverse painting on glass, etched the glass and set it
in fabricated sterling silver. The entire piece is sterling silver that I
fabricated. The little "hubs" are free-moving links. The back of the piece
is scribed with tree forms. |
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17-1/2"
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$2,100 |
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The Seed, The Egg, The Flight |
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Another work on the conception/creation theme. The little gold
discs are the seeds, the eggs are obvious, and the flight is a combination
of diving birds/fish with feather/ fishbones along the top. |
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Lost wax cast sterling silver, fabricated sterling silver, 14k
gold, opal doublets, chalcedony. Crysophase and Peruvian opal back dangle. |
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17-1/4" |
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sold |
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The Moon's Reflection In The Water Is Just A Reflection |
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From the Zen Buddhist Koan series. A very highly esteemed
koan, if you "understand" it, then you either know nothing or everything.
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I did a reverse painting on glass, etched the glass and set it
in fabricated sterling silver. The set stones are chalcedony, imitation
opal, spiny oyster, citrine. The chain is all hand formed wire and it
detaches from the pendant. The pendant converts to a brooch and the chain
can be worn on its own as well. |
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16" |
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$1,800 |
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Bower Bird |
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Bower birds are the artists of nature, building a U-shaped
nest on the ground and going about painting its walls with regurgitated
berries, etc. Then, they go to all lengths to collect an amazing array of
shiney, beautiful and unique objects which they then very carefully arrange
and re-arrange in front of the bower. If a female likes the arrangement,
the uniqueness, the colors of the place, she just might mate with the male
of the nest. I saw this special on PBS that was fascinating and inspired
this elaborate necklace.
Go to www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/bowerbird/index.html
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Lost wax cast sterling silver setting, sterling silver cast
twig bower, sterling silver curly willow cast twig neck pieces, lost wax
cast bronze bird, Swarovski crystal setting, large faceted lemon citrine
setting, three Sleeping Beauty Arizona turquoise eggs in oxidized stering
silver, free-formed sterling silver wire |
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From hook to last hole is 18-1/2 inches
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$2,200 |
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Pointy Bird |
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This bird organically took shape and when I was finished it was
obvious that it was Pointy Bird. I can only hope that my Pointy Bird is as
beautiful and absurd as her accidental namesake. I give you this excerpt
from the everything2.com listing:
"One of two poems created by the fictional poet John Lillison, 'England's
greatest one-armed poet'.
Pointy Birds
O pointy birds,
O pointy pointy.
Anoint my head,
Anointy-nonity.
John Lillison and this poem are works of comedy
created by Steve Martin."
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Carved, fabricated sterling silver, Swarovski crystal
settings, sterling silver plated cable wire hanging from the bottom with
apatite blue faceted gemstones, Czech crystal, Swarovski crystal, quartz,
Japanese seed beads, sterling silver wire.
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From hook to last hole is 21 inches
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$1,100 |
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Shinto Bird #3 |
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The Shinto myth as I've come to understand it from the little
book I have by Swami Harshananda called Principal Symbols of World
Religions goes something like this: The Sun was upset with her Brother who
was the Ocean because he was so impetuous and angry. So, she hid herself in
a cave and all of the light left the world. Birds sat on a perch outside of
the opening of the cave and sang and out of curiosity, the Sun came out,
thus returning life to the world. The Torii gate (commonly found outside of
shrines) which symbolizes the bird perch is used to mark what is sacred and
stands as the gateway between the physical and the spiritual. In my work
here, I've got the bird flying under the gate/perch of the torii towards the
sun (cluster of lemon quartz) and on the other side is a Japanese type
ikebana flower arrangement made of various gemstones. I painted the tree
branches on a small piece of wood, sealed it with uv varnish and set it in
sterling silver. The bird is attached in a 3D fashion to the painting by
brass tubing, so it is raised as if really flying. |
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Fabricated sterling silver, lost wax cast sterling silver
bird, lemon quartz, faceted amythest teardrops, faceted pink amethyst
teardrops, holly blue chalcedony, blue lace agate, quartz, calcite, Peruvian
opal, freshwater pearl |
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From hook to last hole is 17-1/2 inches. Front piece is approx. 3
inches long. |
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sold |
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Shinto Bird #2 |
| Description: |
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The Shinto myth as I've come to understand it from the little
book I have by Swami Harshananda called Principal Symbols of World
Religions goes something like this: The Sun was upset with her Brother who
was the Ocean because he was so impetuous and angry. So, she hid herself in
a cave and all of the light left the world. Birds sat on a perch outside of
the opening of the cave and sang and out of curiosity, the Sun came out,
thus returning life to the world. The Torii gate (commonly found outside of
Japanese shrines) which symbolizes the bird perch is used to mark what is
sacred and stands as the gateway between the physical and the spiritual. In
my work here, I've got the bird flying under the gate/perch of the torii
towards the sun (cluster of lemon quartz) and on the other side is a
Japanese type ikebana flower arrangement made of various gemstones. I
painted the tree branches on a small piece of wood, sealed it with uv
varnish and set it in sterling silver. The bird is attached in a 3D fashion
to the painting by brass tubing, so it is raised as if really flying. |
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Fabricated sterling silver, lost wax cast sterling silver
bird, lemon quartz, faceted amythest teardrops, faceted pink amethyst teardrops, holly blue chalcedony, blue lace agate, quartz, calcite, Peruvian opal, freshwater pearl |
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From hook to last hole is 17-1/2 inches. Front piece is approx. 3
inches long.
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| Price: |
sold |
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