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"Entangled Connections"
Forged and Fabricated, Copper and Sterling Silver, with Patina and Acrylic
image by Robert Couto
"Water"
Raised Forged and Fabricated, Copper
with Tinning, Patina, and Acrylics
Transformed Adornment Night Stand.
Found object, Forged and Fabricated Copper, Graphite,
Patina.
image by Eric Smith
"Dependence: Day and Night Pill Box"
Fabricated and Forged Sterling Silver and Copper with Patina and Acrylics
image by Robert Couto
image by Eric Smith
image by Robert Couto
Fabled adornment……


In a world of over consumption and
disposability we throw away the old or
damaged rather than reconsider it for further
utility.

The “Transformed Adornment” series attempts
to question ideas about value and materiality;
Transforming (or destroying) by embellishing
while celebrating its past.    The objects’
adornment grows out of the pieces linking them
back to thier decorative historical motifs of
acanthus.

These pieces try to finding beauty in the
overlooked and under appreciated through
representation in metal, while being a reminder
of the chaos that can occur when one does not
temper ideologies.