[Jewelry making - Article 00089] - Re: [Orchid] Inspirations...

[Lee Einer]

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Personal inspirations?

    Gaia, Brede, Mother Earth. It still blows my mind that rocks can be
    so beautiful, so full of character and personality. And I think they
    provide a much needed link between us and the earth. If it were not
    for stones, I would not make jewelry. 

    Carrie Adell. She loved stones. She was adept at translating the
    beauty of stones into metal, and one of her "things" was producing
    wonderfully wrought metal beads which were themselves inspired by
    rocks, pebbles, patterns of erosion, etc. 

    Harold O'Connor. Beyond being a wizard at reticulation and
    granulation, he is a man whose art is unconcerned with convention. He
    has done things with granulation on old, weathered bone that are
    indescribably beautiful. 

    Charles Lewton Braine. The most knowledgeable person in the field of
    jewelry and metalwork that I have ever met. And his fold-formed,
    bimetal, roller-embossed, incised, patinated jewelry is wonderfully
    creative, textural and complex. 

    As for conceptual jewelry, much of it leaves me dry. I think that,
    as with most art, the most powerful works arise from the
    subconscious. That which is consciously contrived tends to lack oomph
    IMHO.

Lee
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