Monthly Archives: April 2009

sabrina meyns embraces translucency and fragility

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The unlikely combination of paper, seeds and silver turned out to be the perfect trio of materials for Ireland’s Sabrina Meyns as she explores her fascination with translucency and fragility. The handmade paper in the first image below looks almost like skin – perhaps the skin that we shed? 

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Meyns is most interested in plants at the end of their life cycle, when they are only a ghost of their former selves, carrying the seeds of hope for new life.  It is this fragility that she strives to capture in her work. 

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jaimie macdonald: new book

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Back in 2006 we took a look at a Scottish designer who was using film canisters to make unusual jewelry.  Jaimie MacDonald’s work has continued to evolve and in February she published her first book, Jewellery from Recycled Materials

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rustic copper timbales

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stéphane halleux’s robot caricatures

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con.trap.tion, noun
a device or machine regarded as strange, incomprehensible, makeshift, etc.; contrivance or gadget.

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today’s flickr find:

Angela Crispin has been experimenting with the new copper clay.  She made this ring with copper clay powder and metal clay using her own seamless ring technique, which she will teach next year in France.

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