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Design

Friday Studio Update 3.26.10

March 26, 2010

Friday polymer jewelry: colorful finished mokume gane brooches this week. Colors and patterns were a delicious immersion. Email me with comments, questions and to purchase.
Thanks! Tory      victoria@toryhughes.com

These will be heading over to my store. Details here. They are all available as of this writing.
Email me to purchase, if you rather- victoria@toryhughes.com, by  Paypal [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.12.10

March 13, 2010

This Friday’s summary of my studio week. Always lots to show you, but these are the pieces at my front door for you to see.
What a week, full of activity and change. My ongoing mokume gane series have transformed into fresh spring colors and patterns.  No silver on these, just polymer. Felt like I was [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.5.10

March 6, 2010

Fridays bring an end-of-the-week summary to studio days.
Spring has swept into my Santa Fe studio, and settled in. I’m immersed in metalworking, new color palettes, and a compulsion to create forms inhabiting a different relationship to gravity. This week I made brooches.

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Playing Around

August 7, 2009

Today’s territory:
Playing around.
Playing with your projects, experimenting.
Are these not your projects?
Playing, as in: “who knows?’, “what if?”, “uh, I could ”
and  “well, there’s this” “and that”…
Your challenge for today is to go play with a project.
Go forth into all your stuff, whatever it is- art materials, words on a screen, your yard, your business.
Do one thing [...]

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Downstream

February 14, 2009

Today’s territory:

Swimming downstream.
Letting go, letting the current take over.
Being clarity.
Being ease.
In making things, as in living life,
there are actions that enhance our process and desires, and actions that obstruct them.
We have free will.
We can choose whatever serves us best.
We are here to learn to choose.
We have all the time we need.
Imagine a clean mountain stream: [...]

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Negative Space

January 26, 2009

Today’s territory:

Design, using negative and positive space.
Employ contrast to guide your viewer wherever you choose.
Direct attention toward what excites you.
Duality reigns here in the material world:

We notice by its contrasts:
empty by full, black by white, here by there,
kind by cold, sun by shade, tension by release.
We pay attention to presence and absence.
This is part [...]

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Faith And Action 1

January 15, 2009

Today’s territory:
Having faith in doing something new, perhaps unnerving, even for just a few moments.
What new possibilities can then occur from that new action?
Sometimes we just have to face downhill and go for it.
Faith illuminates the edge of our assumptions.
Faith highlights our fears by offering a contrast to them, and a way past them.
This is [...]

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Attention + Design 1

January 3, 2009

Today’s territory:
Attention and balance in design.
All design is an equation of energy.
I have been mulling Design.
Specifically how does balance happen, when elements are asymmetrical.
Necklace design is a fun puzzle with which to figure this out.
Because we mostly agree when a necklace design ‘works’, whether we can say why or not.
Every element takes a certain amount [...]

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Energy Out

December 29, 2008

Today’s territory:
Edges and boundaries.
The edge of a piece is the boundary between the world of its creator, and the world outside.
Like any border, clarity, precision, negotiation of identity, are all established here.
Edges are very important.
They define the border.
Examine what the edges of your creative gesture (anything you make or do) say about your intention.
Examine [...]

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Snow Day

December 9, 2008

Today’s territory:
Use limitation to invent and build new structures for the next round of exploration and development.
Like limiting a color palette to focus attention on exploring technical options, the colors can be brought in once the new technique is in place. What constraint exists now that I can use as a tool to expand my [...]

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