ossuary

silk, iron, bovine bone, fox bone, deer antler, upcycled ivory, copper, brass
The iron spring was also made some 5 years ago...

sunday eye candy

Turquoise or the "Turkish" stone. The color blue is associated with the sky, the air, with the holy. Once again it's a stone considered to protect against evil. It is used in many places around the world. In Tibet, they like to mix it with amber, coral and gold while in the South West of the US, it's mixed with silver and coral or shell.

The turquoise on this necklace is fake, it's polymer clay. The blue ceramic bead on the left was made by my friend Suzanne, on the right of the faux turquoise is a bead Sherry sent a while back. The copper pendant was made some 5 years ago, yes it's been sitting in my drawer for that long ( the same goes for some of the beads in the first picture and for the coral of last week... I'm a hoarder...).

Curiosities

The voodoo doll on the right was made by a very talented young man who happens to be one of my students... yes I'm a lucky teacher ! ;)
On the left in a tiny glass case (made by Sherry) is an egg I found in Tennessee. On the right, near the bottom, there's the tusk Lucie gave me...

excessus e vitae

old silver spoon, vertebra, faux polymer teeth, bone beads

The colors of life

ampullae

Thank you Sherry for the bullet casings! :)

sunday eye candy

A Greek legend says that when Perseus cut off the head of Medusa, her blood fell into the sea and grew into red coral. Therefore red coral is supposed to protect sailors and fishermen.
Red coral is also ( like many natural amulets) supposed to protect against the evil eye, to defend against sterility...

arkansan voodoo

While in Arkansas, I said to Bobbi, I'd make her a "voodoo" necklace as a thank you.. So she gave me elements that had a meaning to her to put on the necklace ( the amonite, the red bird, the agate slice, the lizard, a shark tooth, a crystal bead, one of Jay's faces, a Mexican coin)... I went back with them... mixed them with some other elements. The voodoo bird flew to Arkansas watching over Bobbi's necklace...

Some stuff will be flying soon to Tennessee and Chicago...

voodoo bird

Mixed media

Made the head in Arkansas, in Jay's studio ... and the whole bird flew back there...

amulet

wood, hand carved, total length 2" or 5cm

I decided to play with my pocket knife today...

This is a Mano Fica... it's a very obscene gesture in Italy... It is supposed to ward off the evil eye...

Of course it will end up on my "voodoo" necklace aka the monster necklace...

Curios

bracelet

and some music, check this : Carrefour Bongo's. The singer is my cousin ( well that's how we call each other even if we're not related... ).

I-doll

mixed media.

The head was made in polymer clay using one of Jay's molds.

Inspired by the Expo Vaudou that I still have to visit... soon

colors

Necklace

orphan beads and bits of chains...