Experimental Methods

Cuff number nine: Continuum. It's good to listen to your mother sometimes. I worked with her most recent suggestion and tried a piece with cut-outs within the design. I learned a lot from doing this: for instance, next time try larger, easier shapes to cut out. It was exhausting for my poor right hand to get my Fiskars through two layers of felt to make these tiny, amorphous negative spaces. But I think it's a good start to something new.

This is my Anni Albers inspiration piece. I don't think I've ever seen a work by her that I didn't like. See for yourself at her online gallery here.

"C" by Anni Albers, 1969

"Design (Red and White)" by Anni Albers, 1955

You can see more views of Continuum Cuff on my Etsy page and on my website.

Homage to Albers

Bauhaus painter and color theorist Josef Albers is one of my mom's heroes. Not your typical hero, I know, but something in the gene pool passed this reverence for both Josef and his wife Anni down to me.

This is the first new, original design I've created in a little over a year (and it's bracelet number seven if you're counting). I was inspired by the colors of a Josef Albers painting, and the design is loosely based on the architecture of a local church steeple. You can see more views of Looking Glass Cuff on my Etsy page, as well as my website. I can't wait to pay homage to Mrs. Albers soon...

Homage to the Square by Josef Albers, 1967 (photo courtesy of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth website)