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When I take a break from making earrings, on these long winter days,
I go on over to my drawing desk.
I like to pick a subject and spend some time with it...
but what will it be...
perhaps a more indepth study on one of the facial features..
.....since there was no one else to consult...
I chose Ears...
.. all the ears in this study belonged to family members and I hope they don't mind...
and their names have not been changed ...
so don't be too severe if you know them in real life
and their Ears here are not exactly as the ones on the sides of their heads....
I tried...
Well, the more I read about Ear shapes and examined them...
the more unusual they seemed to be...
way more than initially meets the eye...
sort of like when you repeat a word for the 100th time
and you can't understand why it is pronounced that way anymore
and the spelling just doesn't look like a word anymore either...
well that is how my obsession with Ears felt...
How did we ever come to have two attachments on the sides of our heads like this...
that we rarely pay much attention to or hardly notice.
.. but really they stick right out...and they are right there in everyone elses face.
...parts with names of Helix and Antihelix... Tragus and Antitragus...
Lobule, Concha and not to forget, the Ear notch...
and these are just the outward visual parts...
and even though I make my living making earrings to hang off these little attachments,
these were new words to me.
and to think all I have ever really been concerned with, about them before,
was just a spot to hang a pair of Earrings...
Ears are so much more!!
... the more closely I looked at each Ear
and discovered each ones individuality, shape, tilts, turns and little nuances...
I became entranced with them.. structural, rounded, curving, flowing lines, depth, shadows...
They are beautiful flesh and blood sculptures and we each have two...
They are amazing !!
.......and without which..... how could we hear the music?
or
...hold our glasses up?
...drawings from my sketchbooks............. baby, children, teenager, adults ears... pencil, conte
at DESIDERATUM Art and Jewelry Studio, St. Martins, New Brunswick, Canada
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The illustration below was what first caught my eye and the instigator of my Ear Study....
from
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
... an excerpt from the story with the grand title of...
"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator Sidney Paget
... now you will have to get the book and read the rest of it...