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Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Work In Progress

Work In Progress

The Window and the Hive

A big ring. The 'hive' is how we describe the shoulders. If you put two halves together it joins into a hive. The influence is from a Majapahit empire ring.
Alas! the hive must be skimmed for the ring to wear comfortably.
Shoulders 'pressed' down. The ring is balanced, though we had to lose the plush sides.
The mount in unbelievably beautiful even at this stage. The angles at which the face reclines and where the band flows are perfect. Light will flow as if we staged it from top to bottom - this remains to be seen.
This is always the part I love and know is critical to our 'feel' test, the 45 degree underside of a ring. If this part is not like an object, it is hard to think of the ring as sculptural.
The top view is majestic. It is impossible to calculate the exact measurements at ANY stage before this - some certainty will come as we sculpt the work pitifully and slowly.
The face, front view, looks more like a fencing mask than a window. OH DEAR. This usually happens, but every time we must proceed ruthlessly. If it has yet to be completed, we must hope for something.
The colors are so 'ink washed' only light will render their true meaning. At this stage, nothing you imagine to color will be its color on the ring. We choose in the night, but of course. The second major problem we encounter (first being the form of the ring) - not having bigger stones or the right material to custom cut for the corners! This has happened because we can't get the face to be 100% exact to the calibrated stones. We must work out something if we want the BAGUETTES to sit like BAGUETTES. The trouble of using shapes other than round. Round stones are easy to manipulate.

Will we ever complete this ring?

The Plucky Bean

The power of form and meaning. The back must look its part. Even the smallest detail at the side of the bean.

Finished

Tsavorite Frame Ring

This mount is almost a 'pictorial' frame for its stone. A 'Door to Window' frame as this greatly enhances the presence of the stone

Finished

Moon Salutation Ring

Pedestal mount is a natural for a 'sugarloaf' cabochon, the concern though is that 'sweet spot' height
Base still needs 'architectural' work, probably enamel
Architectural work partially completed
Enamel fired in

Table Top Art Deco Pinky Ring

Art Deco mount for a pinky ring. Not pierce work but more of putting shapes & parts together
SIJS, Bespoke Fine Jewellery Singapore
Carving the gallery for this bezel takes three full days, only working on this one ring
Taking the mount for a color drive

Finished

Quartz and Coral

How to wear these awful coral 'tusks'? Studying the coral tusks here to compare to a more ideal briolette form (like the yellow examples here)
No longer awful. This is the work of shaping a stone, not buying a ready stone. Now the recut material will attract its own partner, in this case, the quartz flowers, also carved by hand from a rough
Making the gold work to support carved stones will actually require the jeweller to be more conservative than artistic. Many times, critical eye is needed to make the gold work 'disappear'.

Sun Salutation Pendant

Jade, to make a pendant from a piece of its cuff bangle
Stone in stone in stone. A way of manifesting a small piece of stone
Assembly roll call time: putting lapidary and setting together

Finished

A Very Big Yellow Sapphire

Very big 42ct yellow sapphire, how to 'wear' it?
Breaking a complex job into parts means first seeing each part on its own
Enamel that takes weeks even for a small area

Sometime Maybe

Color therapy: an uncommon pairing will revive the eye. This makes sense for a stone that is often designed a little too old-fashioned, the lavender jade
Stone in stone. Spark for spark. In natural light the eye can already sense the 'sparks' in the alexandrite heart. A dark stone, we refrain from blocking off its light, through the use of crystal, which magnifies light play
When warm light runs over the heart is set aflamed
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