3-d Sketching...

as an exercise in my metals class, we took common household materials and used them as a means to sketch out possible metal-made jewelry compositions. we had 20 or so minutes for each one, and we had to create a series. in 60 minutes i ended up with a 4 part series inspired by contrasting materials: organic and industrial, soft and sharp, etc. the series consists of a pair of earings, a braclet, and two broches. i'm interested to see how i can translate these to metal? we shall see.

Always on the ALERT

made this little sketch book with some columnar paper (on the interior) and! on the outside are some pages from the Aviation Engineer Force yearbook that maybe belonged to my great uncle? anyhow i use it for sketches and notes and life in casting.
*notice the diamond above the crouching aviation engineer*

doodles of the soul

about three months ago i embarked on what would be called 'my spiritual journey' (really i've been on this path my whole life and will be journeying well beyond my 6 month mark but this is sort of a personal survey, maybe even an inventory on my own steady process). in the beginning it had a very concrete set of terms and has since become more nebular. part of all this,though, has included these little mandalas. now, i don't know much about mandalas and i'd rather keep it that way until the 6 months are over. but at that point i will be looking back over the series, studying the way formal elements within the compositions have changed and how that may correspond to internal psyche related compositions according to the way Carl Jung analyzed mandalas. check it out, these are a few of my favorites, spanning the last several months.