Specimen I: Finger

Specimen II: Lips

Specimen III: Nose

Nose-ring

Casted my nose in latex & finally set it in my enormous nose-shaped bezel. The idea of applying gold leaf was thrown at me so I played around with it. I’ve never used it before … yay or nay? Not sure if it’s a little too garish … although it contrasts kind of nicely with the silver lip-ring. Any feedback would be appreciated (Keeping in mind I still need to clean it up a little). :]

Revolutions
Copper. Nickel. Cabochon. Nickel wire.
2010.

This was the product of an assignment requiring a piece to tell a particular story; I chose to create a double-sided ring to represent Mark Z. Danielewski’s thrilling novel Only Revolutions.

Koi Ring
White bronze. Lost Wax Casting.

I created this in my very first casting class. I attempted to make an attention grabbing ring, and I feel as though I succeeded because you can’t ignore this seductive larger scale piece when you give the koi a home on your hand. The koi and the wave base were carved separately, casted, and soldered together. I used an ammonia and salt patina to give it a feeling of the rush of water. This piece was a challenge but I’m delighted with the results.

“Only Revolutions” Nickle sheet. Copper sheet. Silver wire. 

This is a ring/hand-piece I made a few years ago during my Intro to construction/forming class. You can flip it and wear it two different ways (One side with the green stone set in it, the other with a yellow stone). It’s constructed out of nickel and copper and the two halves are connected with silver chain. It swings open in the center so that it does not limit movement. I love function in a piece, even if it’s simple.

It was an idea based off of the novel Only Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski. The stones represent the two ageless main characters (their eye colors and the colors used to present them in the novel). You can turn the piece over and change whatever stone is showing because the book is in a format where you read one character’s story, then flip it over and read the other character’s view. The overall shape consists of two interlaced infinity symbols because the characters are ‘ageless’. The layers have to do with the character development over the course of the novel. The top layer is very clean, just like the forever youthful boy and girl seem externally, yet underneath is ‘dirtier’ representing the inner development and growth of them internally. The book is poetic, colorful, and beautiful. My hope was to capture some of that in this piece.

It was really fun to make even though the design process and figuring out how to connect the two halves were big pains!