{"id":15701,"date":"2018-12-07T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2018-12-04T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:03:54","slug":"spikey-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/spikey-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Spikey Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Even here in Southern California there is quite the nip in the air and winter is making herself known all across the US and in other parts of the world. To match this weather and season, I thought I’d go with icy blues to wind up this week of blues and what a piece we have here to contemplate.<\/p>\n

Maud Traon<\/a>\u00a0has taken\u00a0gem-setting far beyond the classic expectation.\u00a0These marquis-cut stones are installed not so much to be admired for their beautiful icy blue color but to generate energy and a sharp boldness that verges on the dangerous. This ring could possibly double as a weapon!<\/p>\n

All kidding aside, you can see how this unusual setting reflects a gem’s organic origin where the crystals form in a variety of directions at the behest of various geological forces.\u00a0They do not sit in the Earth, cut and clear and ready to sparkle for us but are surrounded by other elements, many that are dark, dirty, gritty and swallowing them up.<\/p>\n

These were my thoughts before I found this explanation of her approach on Maud’s website. It seems her objective has been met when viewers like us read similar sentiments in the work:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Maud\u2019s work sits in direct contrast to the standard approach to jewellery of setting highly cut stones within a traditional fixing.\u00a0 The stones are set in a manner that reflects their natural structure, glitter is treated as an equal to precious stones and the object in its entirety appears to have fallen out of a natural wonderland<\/em>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you find this work intriguing, head over to Maud’s website<\/a> to look at other pieces in the series as well is the variety of approaches she takes under this organic philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maud Traon’s ring reflects the organic origin of gems where the crystals form in a variety of directions at the behest of various geological forces. 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":[1696,6116,6115,30,640,822],"class_list":["post-15701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-gems","tag-marquis-cut","tag-maud-traon","tag-organic","tag-polymer","tag-ring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-45f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701","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=15701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15733,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions\/15733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}