Microstudies: Adventures in Mixed Media

These 1.5" x 1.5" 3-D paintings were created to parallel pieces of jewelry previously created.  The paintings are photographed on top of photos of the correlative jewelry.  I have an order for twelve more.  

Diverging Correlatives

An Oxymoron?

Well, yes, but...

the two words still suggest the paradox of creating artwork, deconstructing it, rebuilding it with different forms and sometimes for different functions...basically "recycling" an idea until it's become many other things with a hidden thread between them.

For example, when I sell a piece of Jewelry, I proceed to make packaging for the specific item sold.  This involves photography of said item, making digital collages, then printing them.  Phase 2: Choosing paints, and grabbing my Xacto knife in order to make intricate paper cuttings of the digital collages just printed...I won't even go any further than this.  I've suggested several of the stages of building something, breaking it down, and remaking it in dozens of permutations from there.  And so on, to reference another literary inspiration of mine, Kurt Vonnegut.

Now some multi-exposures of the custom box for the Sympathy for a Cyclops Ring.

Collage: Diverging Correlatives

Collage: Diverging Correlatives 2

Fodder for the horses

Or brainstorming Album artwork for my friend, Richard Sanchez and his musical venture: Panda Sanchez .  I'm having way too much fun with this collaboration already..."Help! I'm having too much fun!!
 And now to indulge in listing some of the many permutations thus far: 

Fun with black, gold, and gunmetal...

I'm going through a "subdued" phase with my jewelry color palette...

Jewelry Deconstructed

There's a thrill in photographing one of my own paintings, cutting up the photo, & collaging it into a new context.  Now to start playing with my jewelry...