Love Lost and Love Found — New Jewelry

Posted on | January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

I have recently found that I like designing and putting together beaded jewelry to go with my collage-y artwork.  All the little, shiny beads in their translucent colors….  Although I do need a magnifying glass for the smallest ones, and my hands feel a bit cloddish, I am in love again.  Perhaps just a phase, but I am learning to just follow without judgment where my creative river flows.

Love Lost is a wistful piece.  Is that a young widow or the spirit of Death wandering the cemetery with a single red rose?  This piece features my first completely original photography, which has been altered using Photoshop CS2.  I plan to make a series of notecards with this and other images from the same photo shoot.

Single Rose is a bit more playful.  I imagine someone wearing this with white or red lingerie for their lover.  Coy and mockingly innocent.  In a way, it reminds me of my youthful sexual encounters.  The image I colorized was originally photographed by Tina Keller under a Creative Commons license.

I’d like to thank my friends Art Drauglis for photographing these and ChaCha for modeling the necklaces.

Let me know what you think.

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