Seaweed Earrings Design:Green Seaweed (single) Jacob melts down scrap silver

Jacob melts down scrap silver from the studio and pours it into a casting vessel filled with dried white beans

with a little help from my sister Corinne

Inspired by the movement of molten glass

’ creating an interplay of texture

Seaweed Earrings Design:Green Seaweed (single) Jacob melts down scrap silverThese glass earrings were inspired by Neptune's Necklace, a seaweed commonly found along New Zealand's coastline, and grew out of a recent series of sculptural works exploring its distinctive chain of floating bladders. Each glass element is made one at a time in the flame before being finished with sterling silver findings. I love the connection between these earrings and my larger artworks. They both begin with the same process of blowing air into