Focus on Life Week 12: Observe the Curve

Week 12~ Observe the Curve “In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”                                                          ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton We move, live and love in curves. Arms, legs and bodies curve to propel us into the life around us. Branches of trees curve to embrace the breeze.  Letters curve and form words.  Curves can keep things apart, hold things together or create a path.  This week take a moment to focus on all the different kinds of curves that surround you everyday.

My favorite curves are the ones with infinite possibility: those sweet rings created by my hand.

Spun brass, copper, silver
wound 
on the tinniest mandrels.

A meditation. 
Precision and imperfection: individual rings 
made to be joined together

interconnected again

in maille, inspiration and art.

Studio Sublime

Toltec Jewels is an author by day, jewelry maker by night. Her literary work is housed by the San Fransisco MOMA and is published internationally in popular magazines, literary quarterlies, and university publications. She has won a number of awards for literary and jewelry arts. She is happiest making handcrafted jewelry with her entire family, snuggling with her doggies and grandkids, sewing, singing, reading, and learning jewelry techniques. She is the host of Jewel School Friends, a community of expert and emerging artisans taking inspiration from each other and Jewel School. Join her on Facebook for networking, fundraising for Beads of Courage, jewelry making challenges, contests, give-a-ways and of course, cool beads and jewelry!