Sculptural
Jewelry
Jill Crawford-my
muse and inspiration on Mexican and Modern Jewelry
ODE TO A MASTER
(on spratling bday years ago)
Oh departed bard of silver, by your
birthday we remember your transient Existence in this
oft tortured corporeal world yet we celebrate your immortal
vision. The poetry of your design flows out to us and
transforms our senses with its intoxicating and captivating
magic. You discovered the untapped essence and luminosity
of this purest of metals and impressed your brilliant
vision upon it, breaking through the barriers of time,
space and geometry to create your sublime art.
Through your eyes we have witnessed
the creation and translation of nature, myth and archetype
into exquisite forms of adornment; interpretive designs
that have cast your world into a universal language
of the utmost beauty. These gifts you have bestowed
cannot be diminished by time, or space or centuries
past. As we make our pilgrimage into this new millenium,
we look back gratefully to the towering shadow of such
an extraordinary being.
The power of your vision is permanently
embedded in the sinuous surfaces and textures of your
silver. Symmetrical and asymmetrical, abstract and realistic,
real andsurreal, serious and playful, architectural
and sculptural, your forms and creations overwhelm our
senses and give us a glimpse into the world you both
inhabited and created, as they reconnect us with that
mysterious elemental silvery universefrom which we evolved.
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