To the Next Hex P07988-P00069 intersected with lightly textured sterling

intersected with lightly textured sterling silver details and a sterling silver bar chain and French hook ear wires

and an orange jasper dangle tie the piece together

Artist Mark Yale Harris' bronze bear has a wonderfully warm personality

Textured sterling silver details encircle colorful circles of hand-woven Japanese glass beads

The versatile silhouette knots at the front

To the Next Hex P07988-P00069 intersected with lightly textured sterlingCreated by Tim Forcade from a composite of 15 overlapping photographs of a still life set in his studio. He used a compound camera he assembled that works much like a precision view camera joined with a high resolution digital camera. The fact that the camera body moves independently of the lens makes this compositing process possible. Forcade used the composite as a starting point in subsequent steps that involved composition, collage, and painting