of art and liminality

[elisem]

Sometimes's it's almost as if one can see through things, even solid object, and glimpse another world.



Maybe that's just the synaesthesia, though.

Comments

Pendant?

[onyxlynx]

That's gorgeous! What's its name? And what's the stone called?

Re: Pendant?

[elisem]

Thanks! The pendant is called "Radio Lwa." It found its person yesterday, so it's going to be mailed off to them soon. (I'm really glad I started taking pictures of the work; that way I can see what I've done and learn from it.)

I do a lot of named pieces. I'll put up a few more photos of some of them when I get the chance. Otherwise, my current stuff can always be found on one of two LiveJournal listings, where I am also elisem; the link on my name will take you to my LJ. Recent new work is always in the most recent Wednesday post headed "ArtLog: New Shinies" and the current list of everything is in the most recent Friday post headed "ArtLog: Current Shinies." (Dunno if I'll be posting shiny lists here, or if I'll link, or what. We'll see how it goes. But I'll definitely be talking about the creativity stuff here, and posting more photos.)

Anyhow, the stone is labradorite that appears to have been overdyed with some sort of blue dye or pigment. Labradorite is often a greyish-green ranging from transparent grey to opaque grey, black or dark green. The blue overdye does nice things to it.

That flash of brilliant illuminated color is a reasonable representation of what labradorite does, which is to play with light. It's a plagioclase feldspar with a crystal structure that bounces the light back and forth inside it, resulting in absolutely stunning flashes of color. I've seen labradorescence (which is the technical name for this particular optical effect) ranging from lavender-pink through red and yellow and all the way through the spectrum to a deep deep blue flash, but most labradorescence is in the blues and greens. (Um, don't get me started mineral geeking, unless you've got a bunch of extra time. Heh.)

The wires are sterling silver. I like working sterling wire probably the best of any kind of wire, because the physics of how hand-formed curves work in that metal just makes me really happy, because it's so beautiful. It's like you can see the math sing.

Re: Pendant?

[onyxlynx]

Ah. Thanks.