May we see with new eyes, each old thing, each known thing.

My Juicy Heart

My Juicy Heart

Making the ordinary heart exquisite.

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We Lost The Sea

April is the cruelest month. It is not for me, but I know it is for many. If not cartoons, then the music that we can get lost in. The record store that is no longer there, but in that one memory that plays itself. Keep on keeping on. Departure Songs is inspired by failed, …

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If You Think With Fire

If You Think With Fire

David Lynch, Ezra Pound, and a fumbling through work that has little structure

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September’s Harvest Moon

September’s Harvest Moon

September’s work-in-progress. Cutting special stones to work with big gemstones. Colombian Emerald, Rose Quartz, Black Coral, Green Jade, Lavender Jade. Custom and bespoke jewellery Singapore.

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July’s Memory

July’s Memory

Work processes, of the old and not.

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SIJS Spinel Cluster Orb Ring 22k Platinum

From Gem to Jewellery

A compact orb is an illusion. It is an exercise in the ingenious layout of stones, ie. controlling viewpoints of the ring, mixing small and big stones, setting breathing gaps through varying the moonstones with a lone sapphire here and there.

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Worlds Within, Stone Study

Worlds Within, Stone Study

The Moor by Robert Darch This was the first image that entranced me. The hand that reaches out that you cannot hold. Photos of ‘The Moor’ so sur/real. The artist intervenes massively in the space by creating the stage and using artificial light. How much, I don’t care, but only its climate colder than me …

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unheated sapphires

Color Study, Stone Study

Before we set a stone, I always photograph it first.

I discovered this by chance, finding it very useful in coming up with ideas. Design is in anything when more than one thing comes together. The lens is that one more.

I find that looking at photos you look at light differently. Light from an object to the eye is different from light in study. Color study must consider both.

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