Return of the Hippocampus

February 28, 2011 by

Each time I find myself in a daft mood, a seahorse comes out.
Strange, huh?

The Hippocampus Ring, from the Saddle Series,
is composed entirely of sterling silver.
It has all my hallmarks and 
it also says:
YEE HAW

…the perfect blend of Tahitian whimsy and Western sensibility.

Find it in the shop right this second!
xx

Filed Under: hippocampus, New Jewelry

Monday Brings A Throat Flower

September 13, 2010 by
Good Monday to you all!
I hope your weekends were lovely and filled with long strolls, baking, frothy coffees and baby poodles.
Good grief. I have plenty of things to tell you about but some will have to be spread out over the week so as not to cause you complete and utter swoonage all at once.

First off, Monday brings a throat flower:

  I’ve made a couple of Lexical Charm Necklaces in the past and this is the newest darling in the family.  This baby is constructed of sterling silver, coral, silk, chrysoprase and pearl.  It’s a bit different from the two that went before in the way that the inner petals are actually lifted up on a pedestal of a small hollow form component giving this design even more dimension than the two that came before.  The actual pendant drop is HUGE and the movement of the piece is incredibly musical.  Love it.  Organic.  Sultry.  When I lean in, I think I maybe smell a bit of jasmine…

On the topic of hollow form, have I told you why I love working with and creating hollow form designs?  Well.  There’s no time like the present.  Allow me to explain with an excerpt from a conversation I recently had with a lovely lady:
A friend I have in California weighs molecules. She has a brilliant mind and is an amazing scientist. She told me one day, in a letter, that everything I do affects the molecules and atoms in the crystal lattices around me. When I breathe, the motion of my breath imprints on those lattices. When I stand still and simply live, the pulse of my heart pushes against those seemingly solid structures and there’s a piece of me in everything I’m surrounded by. She told me that when I create with metal, I really do impress pieces of myself, permanently in the crystal lattices of my materials — including the stones. I was so amazed by this information. I started seeing the world in a new way. I started to feel like I was leaving pieces of myself everywhere. 
I started creating hollow forms with the notion that all of the pieces of me that are pushed into the metal and the stones I use need a comfortable home, a place where they can cozily bounce around and echo and reverberate. Likewise, the girls who wear my hollow form pieces will spend a lifetime pushing pieces of their selves into the crystal lattices and molecular structuring of my designs, and I want, as often as I can, for there to be a hollow portion to the jewelry I create so that their heartbeats have a home within the piece. 





Does any of this make sense?
I’m kind of rushing this explanation a bit.
But my hollow forms are kind of conceptual. Well. They’re really conceptual besides being curious and fun to make. A lot of my work is that way. I share a description with people but usually the real root of the notion behind the design is unspoken,,,I suppose those are the parts of creating that are just for me…
Just imagine these pieces, and their hollow portions, carrying the rhythm of your heart into the next generation and that next generation impressing a heart rhythm into the same molecular structures and so on and so forth.  
That’s magic at its best.  
Its very best.


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Wowee.  I’m glad to have that off my chest.  I’ve been meaning to share why I love hollow form work for ages.  Now you know why I love the work!  And if you have one of my hollow form pieces already, I hope you find the notions behind the design meaningful and magical.

Now. This Lexical Charm Necklace will be available later this week when I do a grand shop update.  As will this fellow, isn’t he charming?

Cheval de la Mere in sterling, ocean jasper and pearl.
What a nearly-mythical little hippocampus beastling!

Pour another cup of tea.
Watch the buffalo feathers drift down from the sky.
This is September and the colors have me doe eyed.
xx
Plume


PS  Why yes.  Yes I do have a new obsession.
Filed Under: hippocampus, New Jewelry

Hippocampus My Heart Out

January 4, 2010 by





This is actually a Weedy Dragon.
It is RW’s favorite.

That’s a hippocampus hugging my hand with it’s little
tail and yes, my heart fluttered so hard, it flew away.

This is a frog fish. It can move 60 miles per second.
I’m geeking out.
Can you tell?


I forgot to mention how we managed to experience these seahorses whilst in Hawaii! We visited the Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm and it was fascinating and glorious and interesting and lovely and magical and RW loved it too because it appealed to his sensible fish biologist self (WHAT? YOU DIDN’T KNOW THAT RW WAS A FISH BIOLOGIST? BETTER CHECK BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THIS BLOG TO GET CAUGHT UP ON OUR ZANY HISTORY).
Filed Under: hawaii, hippocampus, sea horses