Seaweed Earrings Design:Green Seaweed (single) Jacob melts down scrap silver

Jacob melts down scrap silver from the studio and pours it into a casting vessel filled with dried white beans

Learn about the magic of lustred glass

these earrings bring new life to forgotten treasures

mounted in painted embroidery hoops like shields

Seaweed Earrings Design:Green Seaweed (single) Jacob melts down scrap silverThese glass earrings were inspired by Neptune's Necklace, a seaweed commonly found along New Zealand's coastline, and grew out of a recent series of sculptural works exploring its distinctive chain of floating bladders. Each glass element is made one at a time in the flame before being finished with sterling silver findings. I love the connection between these earrings and my larger artworks. They both begin with the same process of blowing air into