laurieopal

This is a pendant made for Jean Ward.
The stones are fresh water pearls,  garnets, garnet crystals and carved aquamarine. It was a successful experiment and I loved making it. It reflects the underwater coral I see in Hawaii. https://laurieopal.dreamwidth.org/116640.html

I'm really looking forward to being at Boskone (Feb 9-11) and seeing all the folks I know. I'm making lots of new work.






The stone is a fabulous Ray Mine Silica. The stone is far more beautiful then the photo, but I thought it was acceptable and it does give a good idea of the setting. The emeralds are slightly greener in life. The druze crystals don't really show in the photo. They are seriously beautiful in life. From the collection of Terry Sisk Graybill.

Laurie says:

My daughter Cid Pearlman's choreographic video that premiered at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, had it's European premiere September 18-25 at the Viimsi Artium in Estonia, featured in the PÕHJA KONN festival.

My daughter Shayin and I went to see it and it was amazing. Cid describes in on her web site:

(home)Body invokes complex relationships between embodiment and place. We explore questions such as What does it feel like to be at home in your body? What are embodied experiences of home across intersections of identities and expressions? With a multiplicity of voices, dancers and poetic imaginaries, the work speaks to ideas centering home and body through personal, experimental, and topical approaches. The films involve site-specific and immersive environments both natural and built. Spaces and bodies interact in a collaborative and choreographic conversation.
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https://vimeo.com/668419882

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It was a pleasure to see it again. Cid spoke beautifully about her work and her collaborators, including video artist Mara Milam and lead poet/dramaturge Denise Leto. Denise was there and spoke abut her work really movingly.

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I'm still recovering from the 10 hour time difference (I jet lag badly), but being there was an absolute pleasure.

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The line on the photo is from a poem that with the poems of a group of poets - JJJJerome Ellis, Naomi Ortiz, Willie X. Lin, Tanaya Winder - exquisitely frame the work.

And the music is by Jonathan Segel (camper van) and brilliant composer who has working with Cid since 1993.

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I was able to find some antique amber that was very special. The triangular piece I'm going to set in a one of a kind design. The rock is going to be the base for a leaping artic fox commission with emerald eyes. I had another base planned for this but the amber is perfect. The red amber beads are a gift for my daughter Shayin.

I'll be back posting normally after a little more recovery time. I saw some exceptional art there and will be posting about that as well.

I've been working on a couple of new pendant designs but I'm not happy with the photos. I'll work on them some more and put them up within a week.

But Terry Graybill just received two pendants from me for her collection and they are photographed below. The photos are OK. The opals are far more beautiful but Ethiopian opals are really hard to photograph.

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They are both set in sterling and  I am very happy with them!

I've been dealing with a sick cat, who is much better, but haven't gotten as much jewelry as usual done lately

I'm looking through my stones and thinking about new designs. These are two that really knocked me out.


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Please click on them to get best photo. When I design for them I will definitely put up photos.


And, as you can tell, I'm back at work

It's been a long time and I'm really excited about going to Baycon. (It's July 1st - 4th) There are so many people I haven't seen in a really long time.

I haven't been posting as often as I should because I've been getting ready. But I'm almost done. Done will probably be Thursday but that's OK.

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I'm back, I had a marvelous time and I'll be posting some of the commissions I brought to folks there.

The pendant below us 2 cranes with red heads (rubies) from Hokkaido in Japan. They are considered very special there, and were going extinct until folks started feeding them as a regular practice. Bayla Fine saw them in a documentary and commissioned the pendant. I was really grateful she suggested them. They were a lot of work carving and very satisfying to make.

Please click on the picture to open it up. The expanded photo is *much* better.


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I'll post more later this week.

I've been working really hard on new pieces for Balticon. I'll be putting up more next week. But these are a couple of them.

One is a stunning piece of handmade diacroic glass by Nancy Pearlman. The actual piece in a deep green and a deep blue simultaneously but the photo continues to emphasize the blue and since it's gorgeous and the best I could get. I chose it.

The second is a cats eye moonstone with a diamond that I think of as an astronomical. The photo doesn't do justice to the moonstone but it's adequate and I'm tired from working so hard.


Click on the pictures to get a good view, please.

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I've been working on a pendant, carving it in wax and then to cast into silver. This is a lovely vintage jade carving. I'll put up the pendant when it's done. It's carved on both sides so the lovely carving is always visible, and is obviously reversible. The wax carving is leaves and branches that works really well with the jade carvings.



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I'm working on a whole group of pendants for Balticon for Memorial weekend in May. This is final work on most of them. I've been working on them for quite a while.