{"id":100,"date":"2010-12-05T13:13:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T18:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimav.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2010-12-05T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T18:13:51","slug":"copper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laimav\/copper\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Copper Ring, I had put this ring together in 2007.\u00a0 It is a more personal, conceptual piece.\u00a0 It is a memorial of failure.\u00a0 The smoky quartz set in the copper was a stone I had faceted myself when I had been a member of the Madison Gem and Mineral Club, years ago and taking a few classes in lapidary work. \u00a0The stone had resurfaced from among the remnants within my studio. \u00a0Unfortunately, when I attempted to set the stone in another setting, I broke the point.\u00a0 So this stone, of minimal value, that I had spent hours faceting and polishing, was now of even less value.\u00a0 Leading me to question the value of my skills, and my value as a jeweler or artist.\u00a0 Somehow, these considerations, in themselves, felt to be of some value, so I thought that I would memorialize them in a piece specific to them and possibly create some value to this broken stone, at least as a memorial.\u00a0 I also assigned myself a puzzle, in developing the setting.\u00a0 I would only use one piece of 1\/4″ square copper stock and split forge a setting, no solder and no heat beyond annealing the metal.\u00a0 In a way, I was transferring some of my experience in blacksmithing forging techniques to small scale jewelry.\u00a0 Consciously considering the working processes of blacksmithing and their relationship to jewelry metalworking processes without soldering.\u00a0 Over the\u00a0 years I have gravitated towards cold-working and joining techniques.\u00a0 Some of this is due to my studies with Fred Fenster, at the UW-Madison, for he often used forging and hammering processes in his studio and teaching of metalsmithing. \u00a0 I have also been influenced by my husband’s work as a machinist and Instrument Maker.\u00a0 Now if I could find the drawings.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copper Ring, I had put this ring together in 2007.\u00a0 It is a more personal, conceptual piece.\u00a0 It is a memorial of failure.\u00a0 The smoky quartz set in the copper was a stone I had faceted myself when I had been a member of the Madison Gem and Mineral Club, years ago and taking a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laimav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laimav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laimav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laimav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laimav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laimav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laimav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/laimav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}