Germany’s Ulrike Strempel has created a collection of jewelry that is largely bold with angles and color and hard lines. However, there are several delicate, knitted silver and gold pieces that made me want to whisper. . .so softly.
Monthly Archives: January 2011
david walters: glass vessels
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These stunning vessels are the work of glass artist David Walters. A RISD graduate with a printmaking background, Walters is best known for the detailed, narrative drawings he paints on his blown glass vessels. He often paints characters from fairy tales, adding references to his own personal history – the results are unique and powerful, sometimes dark and edgy.
Shed A Tear For Alice, 3ft x 1ft, blown and hand painted glass
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Hansel and Gretel, 3ft x 1ft, blown and hand painted glass
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Calami-Tea or Love Me, Hate Me, 37 x 9 x 10″
Look No Strings, 14 x 17 x 7″
As he learned his craft, Walters was a gaffer for Dale Chihuly and Lino Tagliapietra. Working with Tagliapietra for more than 16 years, he credits the glass master with being a key inspiration in his development as a glass artist.
Craf-Tea Little Alice I, 29 X 11″, blown and enameled glass
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More at Traver Gallery and Schantz Galleries.
Read a Robin Rice essay about Walters here.
and the winners are. . .
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Thanks to everyone who entered the Custom Text Message Give-Away. How uplifting to see so many thoughtful intentions for 2011.
The winners are. . .
Maureen Carlson, Vicki Turner and Georgette Woo.
Congratulations! I will get to work immediately on your text message images – look for an email by the end of the week.
But Wait. There’s More!
If you would like me to create a custom image of your intention (or name, or favorite word, or short phrase. . . ) you are in luck! On January 1st I launched my new online shop and I am now taking special orders – check it out over at Text Message Muse.
daMuse’s new online shop: Text Message Muse
Text Message Muse is a unique online shop specializing in custom and stock print-ready image downloads of the messages you want to shout (or whisper) to the world at large (or your private little world).
This customer sent in the photo of the baby and I created the text message, then combined the two images. It was love at first sight!
Choose from a custom text message image, a custom text message image combined with an additional photo (see the image above), custom individual letter images OR one of the many text message images that I have created for sale (the ready-made image downloads in the shop will rotate monthly – the ones you see are reflective of only a few styles – available image styles include retro, vintage, contemporary, youthful, edgy and romantic).
You can always get to my new online shop from the menu at the top of the page on DAM or the ad in the sidebar on the home page. Click either one to go to Text Message Muse.
My wish for you in 2011 is the stamina, patience and courage you need to live the intentions you set for yourself.
nissa kubly: camera as art
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After months of focusing creative energy on taking pictures of my new surroundings (thousands of pictures) and teaching myself about photography and cameras (hundreds of hours), it seems fitting to write my first post of the year about an artist who creates pinhole image jewelry and constructs fully functional, small-scale metal cameras that double as beautifully crafted sculpture and wearable art.
View from the Gardens,
1.5″ diam., sterling silver, 23k gold, fine silver, film, glass
View from the Gardens, back
Nissa Kubly is a metalsmith, jeweler and photographer with an MFA in metals and jewelry. Kubly takes her one-of-a-kind pinhole image jewelry one step further by fabricating the cameras used for the imagery.
Pinhole Ring Camera
All of Kubly’s cameras use film and the wearable cameras – rings, bracelets, belt buckles – “offer tiny glimpses of the outside world when the image is developed.”
I am inspired and intrigued. And so, we begin the new year. . . welcome 2011.
Ten Minute Camera
Box Camera, brass, 5″ x 3.25″ x 4″
“A camera obscura, literally meaning “dark room”, can consist of any dark chamber, such as a box or room, with a small opening. Light from the subject matter outside the chamber travels through the room and appears as an inverted image on the opposite wall. My work consists of functional instruments made of metal, inspired by the camera obscura.” Nissa Kubly
Tuscan Villa Necklace Sterling Silver,
Pinhole Image on Film with 18k Gold Background
“This necklace contains a pinhole image taken from Ravello, Italy. The film is brown toned & set between a small circular piece of glass and 23ky gold. A process of photo etching produces the ornamentation on the back of the necklace. A handmade clasp completes the necklace.”
Lisa Sette Gallery has some wonderful images of Kubly’s cameras and sculptural viewers. Read an article about the artist here.
See Kubly’s MFA portfolio here and an exhibition of her work at Paoli House Gallery.
Updates
Come back this afternoon when I will announce the three winners of the give-away.
And did you get DAM’s first newsletter? No? Be sure to sign up below if you would like to receive them in your mailbox.
I’m posting a link to the first one to give you a sneak peek (and news about the apprenticeship project).
See you this afternoon. . .
