Year of the Jewelry - Week 13: A Personal Talisman

"Courage and perserverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air" ... John Quincy Adams

Keeping it short and sweet - for this weeks challenge, I resurrected a piece that I had started some time ago but never finished - after a little bit of work - I'm reasonably happy with the design.  I have long had a fascination with Goddess pendants - I have a small collection of goddess beads that I  will eventually make into a design. This piece is continuing my theme of incorporating dichroic glass in PMC.

Year of the Jewelry - Week 10: Wabi Sabi

"Wabi sabi is the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete, the antithesis of our classical Western notion of beauty as something perfect, enduring, and monumental." -- Leonard Koren, author of "Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers"

This weeks YOJ challenge was exactly that - a challenge, to create a design that reflects the true connotations of Wabi Sabi.  However, I did it.  This week I took some time out from my looming and went back to the metal clays and finished working on a design I had started some time ago. 

To me the pendant is the epitome of imperfection whilst retaining beauty within, maintaining the very essence of wabi sabi.  I'll let you be the judge xo