{"id":11520,"date":"2015-12-16T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=11520"},"modified":"2015-12-16T07:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:06:43","slug":"takes-just-a-little-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/takes-just-a-little-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Takes Just a Little Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nemravka<\/a>Simple ideas are often the most surprising. When I saw this bracelet as a thumbnail on my\u00a0screen, I thought it was a cane or inlay, but when I went in for a larger look, I just broke into a big smile when I saw the way Petra Nemravka<\/a>\u00a0created this peek-a-boo color.<\/p>\n

We have certainly seen the twisted strip in polymer before but maybe it’s the singularly bright\u00a0bit of color\u00a0combined with the continuous rhythmic repetition that a bangle bracelet allows that makes this feel so fresh and brilliant. The simplicity of the colors–a high contrast of black and white with highly saturated colors glimpsed between them–is not spoiled by further embellishment but is enhanced by\u00a0a variation in the length and placement of the cuts. The barely-seen color is reinforced with\u00a0the bracelet insides, but only the edge would regularly\u00a0show when wearing it, so even that swathe of color would be doing its share of barely being revealed. I thought the idea was all around clever and well executed.<\/p>\n

Petra<\/a>\u00a0is from my grandmother’s homeland in the\u00a0Czech Republic. I do notice that I am often drawn to the work we see from that region and have wondered if it has anything to do with my background. But then there are\u00a0pieces like this, very contemporary with a sense of design that is not regional but rather feels universal. So,\u00a0I’m pretty sure there is simply a\u00a0well propagated\u00a0sense of good design and color in that part of the world that we are so often lucky enough to see come out in great polymer pieces. Petra is also an entrepreneur, running the online shop \u00a0Nemravka.cz<\/a>\u00a0along with working on her wide variety of designs as you can see on her Flickr photostream<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Simple ideas are often the most surprising. When I saw this bracelet as a thumbnail on my\u00a0screen, I thought it was a cane or inlay, but when I went in for a larger look, I just broke into a big smile when I saw the way Petra Nemravka\u00a0created this peek-a-boo color. We have certainly seen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4592,3427,640,12,4591,3715,11,3661,4582,3730,3816,16],"class_list":["post-11520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-nemravka-cz","tag-petra-nemravka","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-bangle","tag-polymer-bracelet","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-jewelry","tag-the-daily-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts","tag-the-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-2ZO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}