Porcelain Ears

Porcelain ears need to be simplified down to the most basic shape to be released from the mold, and then details carved back in after de-molding or after the soft firing.

In this stage, porcelain is as fragile as an eggshell, and can’t tolerate any pressure or force.

Carving of details has to be done with the softest feather touch and the sharpest of tools. Or everything breaks into pieces.

But when everything goes right, the beauty and permanence of high-fired porcelain is simply incomparable.

Next step is china-painting.

Cleaning and preparing the Silver Vertebrae Pendant

The free flowing pendant has 16 vertebrae and 15 joints. It’s always dancing while I’m wearing it or when I can’t stop playing with it. In the video it goes through a patina process and then cleaned in a magnetic tumbler and then a rotary tumbler to give it that nice shine. The pendants are available in Silver and in Bronze