sterling silver

new rings

feorge — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:09:27 -0500

i will attempt to post some ring photos
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Amber Shield Pendant Necklace

peggy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:59:40 -0500

This necklace consists of a sterling silver sand cast from a clay model, fine silver bezel, amber cabochon, sterling silver wire hangers, & handmade sterling silver fetter & 3 link chain.

Anticlastic Necklace

Jamie Santellano — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:47:47 -0500

This is a piece

"20 Infinity"

Jamie Santellano — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:35:41 -0500

Here is a ring with more Overlay work. I was commissioned to make this ring for the same person that I made the Fluer De Lis bracelet, but the cool thing is is that she doesn't know she's getting this ring...a twenty year relationship gift from her boyfriend! It was his idea and my design-(xx infinity xx). He's very excited about this! I'm happy for those two lovers!

lamellated Cocoon by David Barnhill 2008

David Barnhill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:52:21 -0500

Lamellated Cocoon by David Barnhill 2008: Here is the front of my latest box dealing with searching. Everything I have been working around lately deals with magnification in one aspect or another and the distortion that often accompanies magnification. I hope that you like the images- and hopefully I am adding them correctly.Lammellated Cocoon front by David Barnhill 2008: Here is the front of my latest box.Lamellated Cocoon by David Barnhill: Another picture of my latest box.lamellated cocoon by David Barnhill 2008Lamellated Cocoon by David Barnhill 2008Lamellated Cocoon by David Barnhill 2008Lamellated CocoonSorry about not keeping all of the pictures together- I'm new at this. So here it goes:

Chrysalis by David Barnhill 2007

David Barnhill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:01:10 -0500

Some of my thoughts when I created this piece were sort of jumbled around the notion of a past event that a few members in my family encountered all at the same time (a death in the family). It all affected us in different ways, yet most of us have different recollections of the event. Thinking that maybe something had slipped by me- I took a closer look, and came up with something interesting. While studying the past and the event I began playing with magnification. Pouring over old grainy fading pictures and trying to make out what I was looking at with a small loupe; scanning pictures into my computer, etc. I noticed that the magnifier distorts. Obviously it distorts, but keeps everything true within it's field of focus. But slightly tilted it starts to distort. At the edges of crisp clean perception there starts the questionable line/void of distorted uncertainess. It is sort of a bubble that draws your imagination in. Suddenly, I was spending more time looking at the odd distortions cast by the magnifier then what i was spending actually studying what I was trying to see. Memory is an odd device, and often it tricks us. We don't necessarily remember things the way they actually happened, but instead we remember events how we would have liked them to have turned out. We remember what we want to remember. Imagination filled the void just out of reach of clear perception, and in the same way imagination filled the void within my own past memories.

Lamellated Cocoon by David Barnhill 2008

David Barnhill — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:59:25 -0500

Here is the front of my latest box dealing with searching. Everything I have been working around lately deals with magnification in one aspect or another and the distortion that often accompanies magnification.

Lamellated Cocoon by David Barnhill 2008

David Barnhill — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:13:02 -0500

Lamellated Cocoon by David Barnhill 2008

David Barnhill — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:10:52 -0500

lamellated cocoon by David Barnhill 2008

David Barnhill — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:05:44 -0500