Sharing The Procedure : Rand Papele Jewelry
Friday, 13 April 2012
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Guest Contributor Post past times Heather Smith Jones of Blue Sparrow Press.
Our Spring/Summer 2012 collection is called “The Archer” together with was real much inspired past times Navajo patterns together with textiles. You’ll run into this throughout the collection. Sometimes nosotros select ideas for pieces that don’t gibe aesthetically with the inspiration for the flavour then they are shelved until they tin endure incorporated into a novel trunk of work.
We sometimes sketch our ideas together with piece of occupation things out on newspaper every bit a starting point. Most of the designs emerge through model making together with prototypes that nosotros invariably brand changes to. It tin endure a painful physical care for at times, but nosotros endeavor to rest unattached together with edit our designs inwards damage of scale together with proportion until a slice feels done. Sometimes many hours tin endure spent on pieces that only don’t “work” inwards the end. Sometimes though it’s only the opposite, together with something wonderful happens immediately.
Metal is a real exacting stuff together with the challenge is to allow it catamenia together with endure spontaneous inwards the expression upwards of technical together with physical limitations. So nosotros endeavor to orbit our ways of working together with our techniques through actual experimentation. To orbit this nosotros endeavor to uncovering ways to suspension the rules. For representative our texturing methods are non traditional, nosotros select innovated our ain methods together with this is ane of the things that brings our piece of occupation to life.
The Japanese philosophy of Wabi-sabi incorporates the persuasion of imperfection together with impermanence every bit an inherent portion of life together with is real much the contrary of the Western concept of beauty inwards perfection. We similar the persuasion of leaving things a picayune stone oil together with imperfect. In this agency there’s an acknowledgment of a journey, of learning together with of change. There’s beauty inwards that imperfection together with nosotros promise our piece of occupation resonates with its wearer inwards this way. Thanks for letting us portion a chip well-nigh our process, experience gratis to contact us with questions together with comments.
Hello together with welcome to roughly other installment of Sharing the Process! We're actually excited to select the artists of Rand Papele Jewelry, Eben Papele together with Judith Rand, talking well-nigh their work. Based inwards High Falls, New York, Rand Papele jewelry is made all past times mitt blending traditional techniques together with innovative methods. I actually appreciate non entirely their beautiful designs but too their experience together with dedication to the craft. Thank you lot Eben together with Judith then much!
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We are Eben Papele together with Judith Rand, the hands together with minds behind Rand Papele Jewelry. We met 20+ years agone together with select been collaborating always since. We began Rand Papele Jewelry inwards 2009 selling wholesale to shops together with galleries. Since every flavour requires a novel line, nosotros approach pattern from that perspective. Meaning, the piece of occupation exists inwards a framework with the pieces relating to each other, together with a even emerges from how those pieces relate to each other.
Our Spring/Summer 2012 collection is called “The Archer” together with was real much inspired past times Navajo patterns together with textiles. You’ll run into this throughout the collection. Sometimes nosotros select ideas for pieces that don’t gibe aesthetically with the inspiration for the flavour then they are shelved until they tin endure incorporated into a novel trunk of work.
Eben is the metalsmith together with has been real fortunate to select held long term positions learning the arts and crafts from 2 real unlike working artists, working at both extremes of scale. He kickoff started with large scale fauna sculptor Peter Woytuk, learning metallic finishing, welding, soldering, wax piece of occupation together with mold making inwards the midst of a surgical physical care for professional person studio. He too worked amongst renowned contemporary goldsmith, Pat Flynn, learning a myriad of mitt fabrication techniques together with diamond setting.
Metal is a real exacting stuff together with the challenge is to allow it catamenia together with endure spontaneous inwards the expression upwards of technical together with physical limitations. So nosotros endeavor to orbit our ways of working together with our techniques through actual experimentation. To orbit this nosotros endeavor to uncovering ways to suspension the rules. For representative our texturing methods are non traditional, nosotros select innovated our ain methods together with this is ane of the things that brings our piece of occupation to life.
The Japanese philosophy of Wabi-sabi incorporates the persuasion of imperfection together with impermanence every bit an inherent portion of life together with is real much the contrary of the Western concept of beauty inwards perfection. We similar the persuasion of leaving things a picayune stone oil together with imperfect. In this agency there’s an acknowledgment of a journey, of learning together with of change. There’s beauty inwards that imperfection together with nosotros promise our piece of occupation resonates with its wearer inwards this way. Thanks for letting us portion a chip well-nigh our process, experience gratis to contact us with questions together with comments.
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Heather Smith Jones M.F.A., is a multi-media artist, arts instructor, together with author. She lives with her hubby inwards Lawrence, Kansas together with loves painting, printing, together with drawing inwards the studio that he built. Find out to a greater extent than well-nigh what Heather does here:
Website : http://www.heathersmithjones.com
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Website : http://www.heathersmithjones.com
Blue Sparrow Press : http://www.bluesparrowpress.com
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