May 22nd, 2008
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Black Feather by JoSelle Vanderhooft
15″ (inside) necklace made with bone, onyx, amazonite, glass, howlite, seed beads, hematite, garnet, cloisonne, coral, “quarz” glass, diachroic glass and sterling silver. Click the image for a hi-res version.
Based on “Black Feather” by K Tempest Bradford
When I read a story intending to create jewelry from it, I take very careful note of color - both those mentioned in the story and those which occur to me as I read and after I lay the story aside. This was terrifically easy to do for K. Tempest Bradford’s “Black Feather,” because color is a central theme in this piece, from the red of a mother’s womb to the steel skyscrapers of Manhattan to the white of clean linen shirts to the ever shifting blue of sky. And then, of course, the ubiquitous black feathers of the title, which I have endeavored to represent with onyx.
“Black Feather” is a story, among other things, about accepting death and the soul-transformation that we go through when we stop fearing our mortality. For this reason (and to represent a plot point that is too beautiful to spoil for you here), I have created the necklace’s pendant from the memento mori of a skeleton, a glass egg and a red bead representing the living we who stand between both ends and beginnings.
This was one of the most challenging necklaces I have ever made, and one of my favorites. I hope that I have represented Tempest’s story accurately and skillfully.
JoSelle Vanderhooft
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