Circles are tough to cut. Luckily, a bit of wonkiness to the edges can add a bit of personality to a piece, while the triangular pieces benefit from a bit more geometry. After putting some generous friends who didn’t know what they were getting into to work, I was able to assemble earrings and necklaces [...]
I love it when a healthcare professional buys my stuff, even though it kind of scares me. I fear being approached at craft fairs by doctors, nurses, or physical therapists because I expect them to point out anatomical inaccuracies. Luckily they are usually just tickled. I’ve sold digestive system t-shirts to GI doctors, uterus t-shirts to [...]
This replicates almost exactly how I found the felt that I would use; stacked up in soft piles, in a similar color order. I don’t like making color decisions, so this was ideal. I could just focus on form and replicating that already beautiful stack. Share on Facebook
The second interation of felt jewelry. Really into the layering, and also into refining my needlework. Sure, a sewing machine would be more efficient, but I am liking the control of hand-stitching–for now anyway. Circle experiments. Two-finger ring. Pennant flag necklace. Pennant flag variation. Share on Facebook
Obsessed with felt at the moment. It’s cheap, and the colors are delectable. The challenge is going to be holding back a bit and not using every single color available, but might as well enjoy it at 15 cents a square. And it’s made from recycled materials, an issue of increasing concern as the fumes [...]
The Mutter Museum Store agreed to carry my Black Lung necklaces on consignment! It’s an amazing and creepy institution in Philadelphia, and the perfect location for my ickier concoctions. The opportunity gave me cause to create a one-sheet with my work that was a good exercise in self-promotion. Share on Facebook
Latest tries at playing with Gray’s anatomy to find some ornamental bits and pieces. Sounds morbid, is super fun. Share on Facebook
After a break, I’m back to playing with anatomy in time to coincide with a resurgence of anatomical activity in my life–MRIs, colonoscopies, the works. Using a facsimile of Gray’s Anatomy, I am choosing the most ornamental of illustrations for possible jewelry or screen prints. Whenever I work from the anatomical interpretations of a skilled illustrator, [...]
Not sacrilegious, but rather encouraged for a change as I was required to rapidly develop an icon set for the “catch-all” section of my Museum’s homepage. Inspired by the iphone, it is intended as a way to give every department the coveted spot on the homepage. The icons came together in an afternoon, and the [...]
A small organizational success of recent years is that I’ve become better at actually filling the appealing moleskine journals that I can’t stop myself from purchasing. Despite this seeming triumph of productivity, they have become a useful procrastination device. If I find myself unable to focus, I generally begin to clean (it’s just about the [...]
I’m planning a Chinese New Year/Purim celebration, and got it in my head that I wanted the invitations to look like the red envelopes that are given out with “gelt” in them. My friend Aron did the Chinese calligraphy and scribe Julie Seltzer did the Hebrew. They both say “gong shi fah tzai”, a wish [...]
After finally obtaining a screenprinting-friendly studio, I was eager to spread the wealth and teach a few artsy friends this complex and at first bewildering process that gets easier with experience and when done in large quantities. After a year and half of hemming and hawing, it finally happened with a great turnout and a [...]
I love instructional diagrams, even of the most simple tasks. The scribe that we have working at the CJM led this challah-making workshop and I captured it on film. She had the dough pre-made so the disgram complicates what was really a sweet and simple process, but it was so fun to make. Share on [...]
So for a bit of a change, a recent project has to do with the time before the organs get involved. In an effort to create more interesting content for the institutional blog I manage for a Jewish institution, I proposed to a few friends that we create a series of monthly dinner parties based [...]
