{"id":15244,"date":"2018-07-27T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15244"},"modified":"2018-07-20T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T00:37:50","slug":"seeking-susan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/seeking-susan\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Sharon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sharonsolly\/2471865963\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/seeking-susan\/sharon-sully-fiber-cabs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sharon-Sully-fiber-cabs.jpg?fit=300%2C514&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,514\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sharon Sully fiber cabs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sharon-Sully-fiber-cabs.jpg?fit=300%2C514&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15245\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sharon-Sully-fiber-cabs.jpg?resize=300%2C514&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"514\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sharon-Sully-fiber-cabs.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sharon-Sully-fiber-cabs.jpg?resize=117%2C200&amp;ssl=1 117w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sharon-Sully-fiber-cabs.jpg?resize=263%2C450&amp;ssl=1 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>These beautiful, timeless, cab earrings were created by Sharon Solly back around 2008. That was the year she published a tutorial in <em>Polymer Caf\u00e9<\/em> about her technique using fantasy fiber and liquid polymer clay to create these fabulous-looking cabochons. My background in fiber arts probably has something to do with why I was so enamored of them back then and still am today.<\/p>\n<p>This also speaks to Sharon\u2019s adaptability to various materials. She worked in everything from polymer to glass to metal and would use whatever suited what she was creating. I think this is one of those cases where the material probably inspired the work, which is a valid artistic type of inspiration. I think the materials were the source of her inspiration much of the time, however, she seemed to choose the best material for what she was doing regardless. And I think that\u2019s really the point of why some artists move from polymer to another material or from another material to polymer. There&#8217;s something they want to express and certain materials do it better than others.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what Sharon is up to now. Her most recent work was primarily in glass, it looks like, but there is nothing I could readily find online since about 2013. Nonetheless, you can see her progress and exploration through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sharonsolly\/\">her Flickr photostream<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These beautiful, timeless, cab earrings were created by Sharon Solly, as seen on The Polymer Arts blog, www.ThePolymerArts.com<\/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":[2948,92,6028,110,640,1000],"class_list":["post-15244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-cabochon","tag-earrings","tag-fantasy-fiber","tag-liquid-polymer-clay","tag-polymer","tag-sharon-solly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3XS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15244","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=15244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15258,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15244\/revisions\/15258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}