goldenbeltartist-Alisand Swanson

Jeweler
Suite 3-130

sandy@fabricatrix.com

www.fabricatrix.com

As a child, my family traveled constantly—sudden, unexplained journeys across oceans and continents—thrilling and terrifying. There have been many homes, from Cairo to Kyoto, and many landscapes—woodland, desert, mountains, and oceans. Somewhere along the road, I started to see tenuous links between the natural world and human history: common images we all share across the gulfs of time and space, which make sense of the world and connect us to each other. These are simple things that anyone can understand—a fiddlehead fern, a snail shell, a curling lock of hair, spiral petroglyphs in North Carolina, Arizona, and Australia, a spiral staircase in the Vatican, a galaxy. I studied archaeology and went beachcombing, and the more I looked, the more I saw, until I began having dreams of picking up jewels and secret messages out of the grass at my feet. Magic.

Jewelry speaks across time and space. Gifts of love are universal—little things packed with meaning, both public (a wedding band) and intimate (the initials and date engraved inside it). In my family, jewelry was the expression of a love that often went unspoken. I came to cherish a box of beautiful little things that tell me I am loved. As an artist, I strive to express this discovery in the language of simple things, easily understood.

I work with a combination of silver wire and sheet and Precious Metal Clay (PMC) which results in a finished piece with a silver content of sterling or higher. Pieces may be accented with 24kt gold foil applied using a traditional Korean technique called Keum-Boo, with patinas, or with vitreous enamel. At the moment, I'm exploring designs for scarf rings in wire and sheet (silver, copper, or brass) with various patinas and textures to complement different fabrics.

napkin rings

Photos by Cristin M. Paul.

Jeweler

Suite 3-130

www.fabricatrix.com

As a child, my family traveled constantly—sudden, unexplained journeys across oceans and continents—thrilling and terrifying. There have been many homes, from Cairo to Kyoto, and many landscapes—woodland, desert, mountains, and oceans. Somewhere along the road, I started to see tenuous links between the natural world and human history: common images we all share across the gulfs of time and space, which make sense of the world and connect us to each other. These are simple things that anyone can understand—a fiddlehead fern, a snail shell, a curling lock of hair, spiral petroglyphs in North Carolina, Arizona, and Australia, a spiral staircase in the Vatican, a galaxy. I studied archaeology and went beachcombing, and the more I looked, the more I saw, until I began having dreams of picking up jewels and secret messages out of the grass at my feet. Magic.

Jewelry speaks across time and space. Gifts of love are universal—little things packed with meaning, both public (a wedding band) and intimate (the initials and date engraved inside it). In my family, jewelry was the expression of a love that often went unspoken. I came to cherish a box of beautiful little things that tell me I am loved. As an artist, I strive to express this discovery in the language of simple things, easily understood.

I work with a combination of silver wire and sheet and Precious Metal Clay (PMC) which results in a finished piece with a silver content of sterling or higher. Pieces may be accented with 24kt gold foil applied using a traditional Korean technique called Keum-Boo, with patinas, or with vitreous enamel. At the moment, I'm exploring designs for scarf rings in wire and sheet (silver, copper, or brass) with various patinas and textures to complement different fabrics.