Author Archive | Sarah Orlik

Serpent Sanctum

Featured Artists: Serpent Sanctum

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 […]

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wire wrap, local, art, mineral patterns, santa cruz

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 […]

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wire wrap, ineral patterns, crown, new project, local sc, art

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 […]

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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 […]

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The final product of this pendant.

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 […]

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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 […]

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This piece has the detail work complete and is almost finished.

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 […]

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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 […]

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