Serpent Sanctum is facilitating empowerment, healing and the arts through sacred serpent wisdom. Serpent Sanctum is a local group that not only shares their art through performance, but also offers workshops for women who want to explore the healing associated with serpent dance. Amrita Devidasi, founder and president of Serpent Sanctum, writes on the group’s facebook […]
Author Archive | Sarah Orlik
Working for Myself
I love making art for other people. It feels really special to give someone else a piece of art that has my energy literally wrapped up in it. When the focus of my art is to share it with everyone else, it can be easy to forget that I really am doing this for me. I […]
New Project
This week I am starting on a new project. I’ve recently been inspired to start making crowns! I’m excited about this project because I think the crowns will give me more room for wire and stones. I like to think of it as working with a bigger canvas. Pictured above of three stones that will […]
Featured Artists: Gold Town Burlesque
I want to follow up last week’s piece on Sarah Jaylin Mays by featuring Gold Town Burlesque. Sarah is the director and choreographer of this troupe of diverse and talented dancers. The troupe boasts a repertoire of dance techniques ranging from traditional burlesque to belly dance, gogo dance, aerial silk acrobatics, and fire dance. […]
Custom Creation: Fluorite Spear
This week I had the pleasure of working on a custom piece for a friend of mine, working with a fluorite spear. Its a special challenge to make a piece of jewelry based off of someone else’s vision. Most of the time, when I am creating I get to call all the shots and have full […]
The Final Product
After my last progress post on this piece, I had a burst of inspiration to add the woven panels on the side. I feel like they really helped to bring the piece together. The final step in the completion of the pendant was to add the bail. I had designed the piece to have […]
Sarah Jaylin Mays : Performer Spotlight
Sarah Jaylin Mays is an impressive artistic force. She approaches the circus arts with grace and professionalism. Sarah is a mostly self taught aerial artist. Above, she is pictured striking a pose on the aerial rope. She also performs with the aerial silks and the aerial hoop, otherwise known as a lyra. Climbing and performing […]
Bringing Two Together
Bringing multiple stones together in a way that is cohesive and not busy takes awareness and sensitivity. This is an earlier piece that I made. The wire work is very simple but the combination of stones makes the piece have more impact. The first stone that I started with was the cluster of smokey […]
Close to Finished
This piece is very close to being complete. For those of you that have been keeping up with my posts, you have seen the progression over the weeks as I add more layers of wire and stones. This week I added decorative detail work. My goals were to make the piece as sturdy as […]
Fire Burns in Santa Cruz
I am excited to kick off a new feature on local performance art with a bang. This is a video submission for Nocturnal Sunshine Burning Man Fire Conclave. Every year at Burning Man, there are groups of fire performers surrounding the man as he burns. These performers prepare long in advance in order to be […]