abby's bowl

My friend Abby recently finished this beauty, which is wire woven onto thicker posts soldered around a bronze (?) washer, about 8 inches across. It's an amazing example of something my friend found in a commentary on Revelation: each successive event in the book of Revelation radiates from the throne, further and further out to encompass the whole world and bring the new heavens and new earth into being. The radiating circles of praise and worship of the Lamb become wider and wider. It's lovely, Abby!

poema

This bowl I made on commission for some friends, and it is the passage, "for we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (in Ephesians) In the Greek text, the word for workmanship is actually poema, which is where our word for poem comes from. It's nice to think of our lives as a poem, carefully crafted with just the right words and flow and meter, rather than a construction site or something more cobbled together with steel I-beams.

I ordered gold-colored copper wire from an awesome jewelry site, Fire Mountain Gems, but I realized as I worked on the text that I ordered a gauge larger than the other wire I have. As a consequence, my hands were nearly spent by the time I got to wiring the bowl together. So this bowl is a bit larger than the others, but it will be more sturdy as well.

peace bowl

This is made from about 16 or 17 origami peace cranes, which I then glued together by the wing tips. It looks like a crown as well, so I call it the crown of peace.