heat shattered metal

I've been exploring hollow forms and surface decoration and have actually done some work with the heat shattered metal technique that Anthony talked about his in post. Here's a photo of a hollow form using that technique. The silver is roll printed and reticulated then heat shattered and formed in layers. One of the top layers is hinged and hides a tube set sapphire.

I am really excited about the ways using heat shattering breaks up the lines imprinted in the surface of the silver and allows me to create layers and space and still have the eye connect the broken lines. It's exploded, expansive and yet still maintains some cohesion and continuity.

It Doesn't Take Much

Tonight I stopped in the local book store and picked up a couple of my favorite magazines, Art Jewelry and Ornament.

In the past I have been intrigued by textures inside of confined spaces. Hollow forms, interiors filled with mesh or roughness with the bounding beauty of a highly polish surface.

I built the earring to the right for a course I took at UVM a year or so ago. I like their lightness, and how they seem to have a certain weightlessness, simple yet defined.

Flipping through the magazines I became inspired to build another piece. I would like to build a tornado ring. I haven't drawn it out yet, but imagine a stack of pierced silver. Each one containing a section of the tornado, and when stacked on top of each other you could look down inside and see the inside of the tornado. Maybe the bottom will contain a jewel.