Ford Forlano
Ford Forlano, Big Bead Necklace #160
Ford Forlano, Squiggle Necklace #032
Ford Forlano, Button Earrings #258
Ford Forlano, Button Earrings #252
Ford Forlano, Button Earrings #246
Ford Forlano, Squiggle Necklace #030
Ford Forlano, Button Earrings #181
Ford Forlano, Button Earrings #175
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