Lindly on Feb 19 2008 | Filed under: Haunani, Tube Beads, Winters
This event remains crystallized in my mind like a fly in amber, and may have not been what happened at all… Elise and I had just finished constructing the first all metal tube bead cutter on her deck, when we spotted a small green inch worm making its way across the deck railing. We took […]
Lindly on Feb 15 2008 | Filed under: Haunani, Regan, Tube Beads, Voulkos
There are times when the synchronicity of seeing a concept in “threes” propels me as an artist to experiment with and reinterpret an idea.
Margaret Regan gave me a fabulously simple and elegant rainbow tube bead necklace. Her beads were small and delicate ( 1/2″ x 1/8 “) and strung with small black glass hex beads on elastic.
I […]
Elise on Jan 11 2008 | Filed under: 1995, Haunani, Liska, Shrinemont, Tube Beads, Winters
It seems to me that innovation in the medium of polymer often resembles our own adult version of “telephone.” One artist comes up with a great concept, something she just has to tell a colleague about. In a rush of excitement, that second person passes along the original idea, inevitably adding a personal twist or […]