November 18, 2007

• Up and Running....

  Etsy's out for the moment.  Apparently, without a better search function, many designers simply don't get traffic or sales unless they bring their own buyers with them - no one can  find them.   Ebay, with all its faults, and they are many, seems the best way to proceed for the moment and so my little ones are leaving me and joining up with that part of the world wide web.

  You can find them here.

  Photography remains an issue, but things have improved a bit in the past couple of days.  A Nikon digital camera would be nice....  yeah.

  Meanwhile, we make do with pics like these -

   

  

   

  This is one of my favorites and really needs a better picture, which I will try for tomorrow.  The clear plastic triangle and circle are 50's vintage lucite buttons.  On them are small bouquets of flowers made from annodized aluminum, like the drinking glasses with their rich iridesence that I drank Kool Aid from at my grandmother's house wbefore I even started to school in the late 40's and still remember with delight. The pink bead under the triangle is also iridescent aluminum.  The other beads are all crystals, multifaceted, in elusive colors.  The over all effect is that these are not quite tangible, as the iridescent and faceted surfaces break up, fracture, the light and keep things from looking solid.  

  In the end, my work is about light, often about iridesence, always about movement.  Sashi, the artist ex, used to say that my designs brought the viewer closer, often made her want to get inside the design itself.  A 25 year old woman was here last night and fell in love with the butterfly earrings pictured below.  She turned them this way and that in the light, moved from element to element, asking about each one, then said she had to look closer and closer, that they drew her in.  I've not lost my touch.

   

  your friend,

   

  pearlbamboo

   

  images, designs, text copyrighted 2007

   

   

   

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