Formations: Paving the Way for 2025!
I love sculpture. So, it’s natural that sculptural elements enter into my sea glass art. Over the past year, I have leaned into working with highly unusual sea glass formations – pieces that are so interestingly molded by the environment, it’s almost hard to see what they were before. Then, working with these pieces on their own or in conjunction with other oddly shaped pieces, something truly wonderful emerges!
This focus on using the most unusual pieces in my collection applies to both wearable art and my newfound direction of garden steppingstones and sculptures. In the realm of wearable art, I made about half dozen new pieces that look significantly different from the existing collections. In the garden décor realm, I have the opportunity to work with the rarest finds in my collection – bottlenecks. Many were too big or heavy to use in jewelry, but are perfect to form sculptural pieces. Now my sea glass treasure hunt begins anew! This gives me an incentive for digging back into my forgotten pieces to see which ones have been neglected in previous design intervals.
Some of the wearable art pieces that evolved out of this new direction include:
Formations also makes me think of other concepts. Formations of new ideas. Formations of opinions. Formations of a point of view. Evolution into a place that has been formed over time. Re-formation. Formulas. Forming new relationships. All of these forms of formations are what I will look forward to in 2025!
Sculptural pieces are emerging as fabulous formations in their own rite!
There’s nothing like an artistic challenge from a fellow artist to get the creative juices flowing. With a fall full of tying up loose ends for the 
The result is a theme piece called “The Rains of Summer; Tears of Joy.” This thought directly aligned with the first “rain” that hit my garden and the shape of a raindrop and a tear-drop – both of which are soothing in their own special way! The piece is actually a series of five tear-drop shaped pendants uniquely tied together in one piece to fully cover the neckline of the model below the neckline. After the show, this piece can be taken apart with each piece of it, its own pendant unless of course, it sells as one piece. Along with this, earrings that mimic the pair I made for the 2011 runway show that often get significant attention when I wear them – long and slender with one large bead or pear at the end – inspiring a “runway collection” of similarly constructed earrings! Since I cannot reveal the pieces until after September 27th, I can only tease you with the pieces that I mention here that were the precedents to the final product and of course, the garden that I look at from my studio! Here's a "Summer Sail" piece in the teardrop shape. 
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