Danielle Embry

 Danielle Embry is a jewelry artist from Arizona, who uses metal, enamel, beads, and other materials such as wood to create these sort of ethereal pieces, which often remind me of natural objects or occurrences. One of her recent collections “making place” consists of pieces titled “desert bloom”, “shifting sands, empty promise”, and “bramble”. On her website, these pieces are displayed hung on photographs of landscapes they look natural in.In some cases, it looks like one was made for the other, for example, the work with the red stripe against the photo with the matching stripe.  I haven’t seen jewelry displayed in this way by any other jeweler, and I think it adds a lot for the buyer, when it’s not being worn it can be kept against this photo on the wall or anywhere else. I really enjoy the forms she creates in her works, and the way she combines these forms and contrasts one with another. She then adds to the form she has made with beads and drapes them in different ways which adds color and shape.