a fijole in the night …

… or a small animal hiding?

enamel on steel and silver

Here's a few results from my resent playtimes with mild steel and enamel …
I called these three first brooches Amazon, Caribbean and Spain, you guess which is which! They're all welded mild steel with liquid enamel, some have also glass beads; the brooch backs are sterling silver and stainless dental steel wire.













The last two pieces are May and March – the month of the Bull and the month of the Fish. These two pieces are somehow related, or at least trying to co-exist. The bull brooch has industrial cardboard and plastic on roller-printed fine silver base which was enamelled by underfiring, to match it with the matte of the other components. The square pendant is welded mild steel with liquid enamel, the attachments fabricated from 18ct gold and brass. It has a long beaded chain which I'll photograph properly in its entire length when daylight comes again. September?? : )





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artichoke, cabbage, rose

Sometimes when I'm feeling a little low
photography is the perfect meditation

The flowers -
artichoke, cabbage, rose
were still hanging in there
after a week and a half.

And then it occurred to me
if I ever had a daughter
I could name her not Sunday
but Cabbage.

Cabbage Rose!

Smiling again.

way home

12 June, early morning hours, past the sleeping zoo to brunswick west

winter flowers

howlin'

Today I locked myself out of the house.
Without phone, wallet, any kind of ID, money, or toothbrush.
But I had my camera!

And kind friends who helped me out.
Thank you.

These were some remnants of things, rubbish floating in and out of water on the damp ground. I can never get enough of what I see around. Thinking about making jewellery directly based on accidental compositions on the street …

walking again

Sydney Road 06/06/2010

June 5

When a good husband and a good parrot team up, the results are spectacular!
And nut enriched : )

subversive embroidery a.k.a the devil made me do it

I made these two neck pieces for a show and auction called Romantica, in mid-February this year. Just around St Valentine's Day, the theme was naturally everything conceivable under the title.

For a change, I wanted to do something quite subtle and soft, deceptively conservative and even repressed, but with a twist. So I thought embroidery, that traditional ladylike past-time to ponder all kinds of things on long afternoons, and that I still had to learn at school, was the perfect way to adorn some silk flowers.

Which came with really quite prominent centre parts ; )


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Like a Virgin I (2010)
silk flowers, glass beads, crystals, antique imitation pearls, antique catch




Like a Virgin II (2010)
silk flowers, glass beads, crystals, antique imitation pearls, antique catch






















Both sides were embroidered.

summer meets winter

May 16, 2010

something for a saturday night

M.A. Numminen Goes Tech-no
Mauri Antero Numminen & Pedro Hietanen

I'm so snowed under with work that only a song can speak for me now!!! : D

Helsinki, autumn

Video by Khilou / Näkymä Rannalta: Helsinki, November (2006)
Music by Ehren Starks: Before I was Gone