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Collage Earrings and Tri-Wing Ring—As
a child, I loved to bite the heads off of gummy bears of
different colors and interchange them. I also was obsessed
with Max Headroom from the Coke commercials (especially the
totally 80's backgrounds with the geometric shapes and
stripes. I decided to capture those memories in beads;
interchanging different quadrants of a warped square. As I
was doing so, the thread snapped and I lost the middle part.
(Along with several beads) I loved the look and worked out a
way to allow the middle to be removed without losing beads
as the piece is cut apart. It was from there that the piece
was created. Later, I learned that this process of cutting
apart a project was utilizing a contemporary geometric
beadweaving technique known as an exploding hypar squares.
In class, students will get to weave an earring, learn how
to cut it into pieces, and reassemble it to create two
earrings from the one. They also will learn how to apply the
colorway of their earrings to a coordinating Tri-Wing Ring,
using a pattern adapted from Kate McKinnon and Dustin
Wedekind. To make the warped square earrings, Contemporary
Geometric Beadwork techniques (first developed by Jean
Power) will be implemented and combined with exploding hypar
techniques (Kate McKinnon). This
class came about when Kate challenged Cliff to make a pair
of earrings for her new pattern book. These
techniques are being taught with gracious permission from
Jean and Kate.
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