Home Host

March 9, 2011 by
Alright.  I’m an excessive, serial blog poster this week.  I know.  But I have lots of stuff to show you so please do bear with me.

This is my new Host, but it isn’t for the neck:
It’s for the wall.
I built it out of sterling, copper and enamel.  
It’s rather large…as my enameling goes.  In point of fact, these are the largest enameled components I have successfully fired to date!  YEE HAW!
Dimensions: 7×5 inches
Hangs: 15 inches long

If you aren’t familiar with my Host Series, 
please click here.
Filed Under: host series, small sculpture, wall art

Playing Host

October 22, 2010 by

Lately, whilst out and about hiking and running in the mountains, I’ve been getting down on my hands and knees to get closer looks at mosses and lichens. My favorites are the lichens — those old fuzzy looking growths in fantastic hues that have found hospitable rocks and twigs to grown on. 

One day, I found myself thinking about how many different kinds of hosts can be found in nature and I started to ponder on what I’m a host of in this life. I’m talking about those invisible things that take up space in me. Those things that turn my heart, soul and mind into a host. Those things that feed off my energy or energize me. Those things I live in symbiosis with. Those things that are parasites that attach themselves to me and feed on the brightness of my spirit. 



Those things. 

Those things.


Nature isn’t so lucky, those rocks, those tree limbs, those hillsides that grow the wildflowers and the noxious weeds — they don’t get to choose what they host — they just do.


I, on the other hand, have the right to choose, over and over again, what I allow to take up residence in me. Out with the dark. In with the light. I will host goodness, love, mercy and light. I will shed off those layers of unkindness, anger, hate, abuse and darkness. I shall not play host to anything that is unwelcome. I shall not give space to any of those dark things.  I’ll keep a candle lit in the windows of my soul.  I’ll welcome the good promises in from the cold and I’ll keep the door barred when the bad things come knocking.


And so, with this in mind, I created the host necklace. A textured slab of copper that has been forged, repoussed, pounded (oh how I pounded, annealed, pounded, annealed and then pounded again…) and shaped into a lichen-like form. I’ve enameled (and counter enameled) this piece, fired it multiple times here in my studio kiln and strung it simply on sterling chain. 
You will be its host.

May it always remind you that you choose what you let in, what you keep inside you.
May it always remind you to welcome the light.

It’s in the Etsy shop now.
xx
Plume

Filed Under: enamel, host series, New Jewelry