Ford Forlano, Pin #100

Ford Forlano, Pillow Cable Necklace #044 (reversible)

Ford Forlano, Pebble Earring #342

Ford Forlano, Big Bead Necklace #127

Ford Forlano, Button Earring #250

Ford Forlano, Button Earring #244

Ford Forlano, Big Bead Necklace #192

Ford Forlano, Big Bead Necklace #160

Ford Forlano, Squiggle Necklace #032

Ford Forlano, Bead #06

Ford Forlano, Button Earrings #252

Ford Forlano, Squiggle Necklace #030

Ford Forlano, Hydro Pin #407

Ford Forlano, Red Tube Bangle

artist info

"We've noticed threads from our art school days continue to be important. While David's strength has always been to push color, pattern and surface in new directions, Steve is constantly fascinated by three-dimensional structures and how things fit together mechanically. Throughout our collaboration, we have often looked to nature for inspiration. In seed clusters, shell formations, and flower buds, for instance, there are carefully organized parts which are arranged beautifully and made up of numerous, seemingly identical, but unique units. These exquisite structures lead us into new ways of envisioning a necklace, for example, both three-dimensionally and texturally. Many of our brooches are like a collection of fragments. Not necessarily of literal fragments (say, like shards of pottery) but more like "conceptual fragments,"– like a piece of music, a chapter from a story, an ingredient from a cuisine, or an element of a language. At some point, however, we let the references subside a bit and allow the color, abstract patterns and form to lead us. The work feels complete to us when the balance of elements – abstract and imagistic -- comes into focus in some unusual way." -Ford and Forlano

Press

AMERICAN CRAFT: FORD FORLANO, SEPTEMBER 8, 2013