[Jewelry making - Article 00201] - Re: [Orchid] A one question interview

[Noel Yovovich]

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    To add to the list of "How I became a metalsmith"... 

    I've been an artist all my life. After college, and a year in grad
    school (art history), I turned to art as my profession. I was a
    professional potter for more than 20 years. Then, my life was
    thoroughly disrupted by taking care of my dying mother (emphysema)
    and mother-in-law (Parkinsons, kidney disease, dementia) while
    raising 4 kids, 3 to 12. When the dying was done, I could not simply
    take up where I left off. I had always wanted to try jewelry, but
    didn't feel I could stop running full-speed long enough to try it.
    With everything now up for grabs, it seemed like a good time. I took
    the class with the soonest start date. Imagine my joy at going to a
    medium with which, after 20-some years of the long drawn-out process
    of working with porcelain, I could now have an idea, and see the end
    product in the same day! 

    I still do a bit of ceramics, but not to market. Very few of my
    jewelry ideas can be finished in the same day, but I am well and
    truly hooked. 

--Noel

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