{"id":13566,"date":"2017-06-15T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=13566"},"modified":"2017-06-15T06:42:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T12:42:12","slug":"the-disk-cubed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-disk-cubed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disk Cubed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46799817@N07\/6963522162\/in\/photostream\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13567\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-disk-cubed\/disks-cubed-silvia-oritz-de-la-torre\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/disks-cubed-Silvia-Oritz-de-la-Torre.jpg?fit=640%2C439&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,439\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"disks cubed Silvia Oritz de la Torre\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/disks-cubed-Silvia-Oritz-de-la-Torre.jpg?fit=430%2C295&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-13567\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/disks-cubed-Silvia-Oritz-de-la-Torre-430x295.jpg?resize=430%2C295\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"295\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/disks-cubed-Silvia-Oritz-de-la-Torre.jpg?resize=430%2C295&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/disks-cubed-Silvia-Oritz-de-la-Torre.jpg?resize=200%2C137&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/disks-cubed-Silvia-Oritz-de-la-Torre.jpg?resize=350%2C240&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/disks-cubed-Silvia-Oritz-de-la-Torre.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>Let&#8217;s move on from the &#8216;ordinary&#8217; disk necklace and really push what these could be. First of all, who says they need to be round? Or strung on their center sitting neatly one on top of the other? Well, no one, that&#8217;s who.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to Silvia Ortiz de la Torre's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46799817@N07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-track=\"attributionNameClick\" data-rapid_p=\"48\">Silvia Ortiz de la Torre<\/a>\u00a0goes completely off the disk reservation by squaring off the standard disk necklace element and taking full control of their positioning. This necklace is getting so far from a disk that I bet some of you are thinking it&#8217;s not a disk necklace at all. And maybe not but the stacking and repetition of form is the same and this is a good example of where an idea might start with some common or basic design and really veer off in very exciting directions, ending in a place barely recognizable from where it started. I don&#8217;t know that Silvia started with the idea of disks but she could have. And so can you start from a well used (or over-used) form or basic design and end up somewhere quite different. The thing is, it would have been hard to get to that cool and very original design without that common or basic starting point.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is several years old but Silvia still loves disks and stacking but she is taking things in a very different direction these days. See how she has journeyed from pieces like this to her big intricate disks display in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46799817@N07\/\">her Flickr photostream<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/SilviaOrtizDeLaTorre\">her Etsy shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"likethisblog\">Like this blog? 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