SilverNina is plotting to put jewelry artists and intriguing objects together in our studio here in Guanajuato for some high powered creativity and seriously enchanting jewelry making. We've collected a little colony of designing women and have set out to make a fabulous cache of mixed media and found object jewelry.
It has come down to a scavenger hunt across Mexico and it's fun, but it's not easy. Found objects have to be found and that takes time. The list reads like this. Bits and pieces of precious and semi-precious metals, semi-precious stone and just plain rocks, and fiber.
Skin of cow, feather of bird, teeth, horn, tusk, hair, pits, pearls, tortoise.
Polymers, glass, sea shells, porcelain, ceramics, wood, resin.
Found things can be machine parts, camera parts, chandelier parts, typewriter parts, piano parts, zipper parts. Antique coins, antique door keys, antique buttons, antique medals, antique skate keys, antique jacks.
Anything our imagination asks for, we drag to the studio.
There it is run through a series of rigid quirkiness tests and if it's weird enough, it's in.
~ Carolyn in Mexico
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