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Those of you on Twitter or Facebook or both may have already seen that I was toying around with an idea for a new jewelry series. I was going through my paints--and mourning my lack of funds to buy a kiln so I can play with hot glass--and trying to think about what would give me the most pleasure. I don't particularly want to make more birds at this point in time (of the paper crane variety; I'm not opposed to PAINTING birds); and none of the previous designs I'd done were really speaking to me. I can't even FIND that Titania pendant I did. And it wasn't that great anyway--it was awesome till I got to the face, and then that whole goddammit-I-keep-screwing-up-the-eyes thing ended up messing the whole thing up.
As I was tidying, I came across one of the index cards I'd used to map out the swap info for the last ATC swap on the BPAL forums. That last round was probably my favorite we've done. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about--the theme of the swap was, essentially, translating music into art. It was a free-for-all, the only requirements being that you be able to find the music online so that whoever got your card could listen to their song. I had an absolute BLAST with it. Translating sounds to visuals--my brain does that unprompted. I don't just hear songs, I SEE them. Sometimes it's mostly just a rush of colors, but if I focus, they take on shapes, become 3D.
Like, right now, I'm listening to Loreena McKennitt's "All Souls' Night". Its base color is black, velvety black, with a thin layer of red over it--translucent, so it shows up as being streaks of dark blood-red. Over that, rich golds and ambers, with streaks flecks of something bright--silver, I think, with the faintest hints of purple, to reflect her voice on the high notes.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQHlWkSM_o)
Or for the visual folks in the audience, try this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMV4dl-x0Tc
and this card: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/Cielamara/scan0002.jpg
Can you see that, as jewelry? I can. I have no doubt in my mind that I could completely rock this.
But would you buy it?
Tell me honestly, flist. Is this something that's doable? Is it sellable? I make jewelry for the pleasure of it, for the challenge of getting those perfect, tiny paintings just right, of working with super-thin wire and precious stones. But I also like selling it. It's satisfying, it's flattering. I can make tiny, delicate things--and I won't put something up if I don't know it's fairly sturdy as far as jewelry goes.
If it IS sellable, what songs would you personally go nuts over if they were translated into art?
As I was tidying, I came across one of the index cards I'd used to map out the swap info for the last ATC swap on the BPAL forums. That last round was probably my favorite we've done. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about--the theme of the swap was, essentially, translating music into art. It was a free-for-all, the only requirements being that you be able to find the music online so that whoever got your card could listen to their song. I had an absolute BLAST with it. Translating sounds to visuals--my brain does that unprompted. I don't just hear songs, I SEE them. Sometimes it's mostly just a rush of colors, but if I focus, they take on shapes, become 3D.
Like, right now, I'm listening to Loreena McKennitt's "All Souls' Night". Its base color is black, velvety black, with a thin layer of red over it--translucent, so it shows up as being streaks of dark blood-red. Over that, rich golds and ambers, with streaks flecks of something bright--silver, I think, with the faintest hints of purple, to reflect her voice on the high notes.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQHlWkSM_o)
Or for the visual folks in the audience, try this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMV4dl-x0Tc
and this card: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/Cielamara/scan0002.jpg
Can you see that, as jewelry? I can. I have no doubt in my mind that I could completely rock this.
But would you buy it?
Tell me honestly, flist. Is this something that's doable? Is it sellable? I make jewelry for the pleasure of it, for the challenge of getting those perfect, tiny paintings just right, of working with super-thin wire and precious stones. But I also like selling it. It's satisfying, it's flattering. I can make tiny, delicate things--and I won't put something up if I don't know it's fairly sturdy as far as jewelry goes.
If it IS sellable, what songs would you personally go nuts over if they were translated into art?