Metal smith

Moving through organic perfection

Metal smith, sculptor and jewelry designer Shira Loa gives us a glimspe of her inspiration and process.

Organically Inspired Art-to-Wear - metal jewelry and sculpture - Orelafey

"everything i make feels organically inspired... taking walks and looking at plants- the shape, the movement of stem to leaf, the sillhouettes, the patterns of growth- is my biggest inspiration... but in the end, i usually do not want to represent these things again, for those things are perfection. you can not improve on their beauty. that beauty runs too thoroughly through the plant itself while emanating in the air around it and the entire cycle of growth, the soil it grows from, the creatures it feeds. for my artwork, i usually take the feeling of admiration, the joy of that organic perfection, and then move it through me... like music... for an abstraction of that form." - shira

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photography by Kyle Hailey & Sequoia
Videography by daflew & NAT
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