20 Year Pearls, collaboration
Collaboration with Lilly Luft and Gideon Herman.
20 Year Pearls
Steel, Sterling silver, fresh water pearls, felt, chestnut
Box: 12” x 8” x 3”, functional caliper 5” x 2”, Brooch: 4.5” x 3.5” x 1”,
2024
Featuring the iconic pearl clasp, 20 Year Pearls celebrates the 20 year anniversary of Yevgeniya Kaganovich and the program at UW-Milwaukee under her leadership. The box and it's layer of raw felt hides magnets used to mount the steel brooch findings and the handmade caliper to the box to allow it to hang on the wall. The back of the brooch featured illustrations from Hekki Seppa's Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths.