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Today we feature beautiful and creative
elemental
art,
made from silver, glass, wood and straw, by four
New Mexico Creates artists. These affordable art
objects make for excellent holiday gifts...and don't
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George Zarolinski
George Zarolinski has worked in many forms of
glasswork in her artistic career. A resident of the
extraordinary northern New Mexico village of Chimayó,
which is known both for its chile and sacred dirt,
George creates beautiful fused glass bowls, wall
hangings and sculptures as well as various jewelry
pieces made from dicrhoic glass. Originally a product
of the aerospace industry, dichroic glass is known
for its properties of changeable color, as in this
vibrant
glass pendant necklace.
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Carlton Gallegos
Carlton Gallegos, of Santa Ana Pueblo, creates these
wonderful straw appliqué crosses in three
different
sizes. Interestingly, while the artform began with the
Spanish colonists, who adapted marquetry to the
resource-challenged New Mexico territory by using
straw instead of gold or fine woods, it was the Pueblo
of Santa Ana that is credited with keeping the artform
going in the early twentieth century. Straw appliqué
gained a widespread revival in the 1930's through the
WPA and
continues to grow with the annual Spanish Market in
Santa Fe.
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Jannine Cabossel The Japanese words wabi sabi
do not translate easily, but are used to describe an
aesthetic of beauty of the imperfect. Wabi
connotes rustic simplicity in nature or man-made
objects, where sabi can mean beauty that
comes with age and impermanence.
Santa Fe
resident Jannine
Cabossel's Wabi Sabi vases are little
blown glass
gems that are unique in their shape and coloration,
each embodying simple, yet practical beauty.
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James Faks |
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The source of artistic creativity is one of life's
mysteries. James Faks is a person who has
delved into many different aspects of art, and has
experienced many forms of practice, from martial arts,
painting to music and more. He is a member-for-life
of the Old World Sun Dance Society; his experience
included four years of preparation on many levels.
The Sun Dance, which is held at the Summer
Solstice, is a rigorous ritual of a spiritual quest and
self sacrifice.
James Faks (pronounced Fox) was born on a
reservation in Northern Montana, where he grew up
learning many of the traditional ways of his Blackfeet
heritage. Since an early age, he was involved in
different art forms: music, carving and painting. He
learned the art of jewelry making from an Elder, then
came to Santa Fe in his twenties to show his work.
Now a Santa Fe resident, Faks continues to
create
in all of these realms as well as being a disciplined
silversmith. His
sterling silver jewelry is distinctive for its simple
design
and brushed patina, as is evident in this belt buckle
(above) and these lovely silver
hoop earrings
(below.)
See More Jewelry by James Faks on New
Mexico
Creates
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