Snowflakes Art
5 01 2010 Comments : 1 Comment »Categories : Art
The “Zibelemärit” (onion market) is a traditional folk festival that takes place on the fourth Sunday in November, in the old city of Bern. Neighboring farmers gather to sell over 100 tons of plaited strings of onions, as well as other fruits, vegetables and nuts.

This is from the first collection of wearable works by Polly van der Glas. A new collection will be available in a few weeks on the artist’s website.
Polly was silversmith qualified in 2006 and won the Craft Victoria Fillipo Raphael Fresh! Award upon graduation. All works are handmade, with sterling silver, human hair and human teeth. Human teeth are locally donated and sterilized, and human hair is either locally donated or sourced from India and China.
Retail prices ranges from $180 for a pair of cast sterling silver human tooth stud earrings, or a cast sterling silver plaited human hair ring, to $750 for a sterling silver knuckle ring set with four human teeth.
Photos by Terence Bogue

Sipho Mabona was five years old when he folded his first paper airplane. Fifteen years later Mabona ran out of paper airplane designs to fold and turned to origami hoping it would enable him to come up with original designs.

Each piece of work is handmade by Helen Musselwhite in her studio in the North West of the U.K. Each piece combines the hand cutting, folding and scoring of a wide range of papers and card that are further worked on to create patterned and textured surfaces. They are then used to build scenes in box frames which are often complex and consist of many layers. This process means that each item of work is individual with no two pieces the same.
