Jaded

For those interested in culture and history, I am also now onto uploading my images from the national Jade museum, San Jose, Costa Rica. If - like me - you thought that Jade was a specific shade of kind of woodsy-minty green, then you - like me - were quite mistaken! I was amazed by the sheer range of colors and shades that these pieces displayed. From blackish "meconium" green, to an almost lapis lazulae blue. And I can't imagine how heavy some of these pieces must be. Take a look at this! A choker!



















I will continue to add to these images for a while longer.

Feel free to browse my Jade album here.

Going for Gold

I have started to upload some of the images I took at the Central Bank's Pre-Columbian Gold Museum, in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica. Feel free to browse the album here















Here are some butterflies. The accommpanying text of this particular exhibit is here on my blog, over in the right-hand column. Interesting!

I am interested in the technique known as repossé (in metal work that is) and just happened to come across this while googling the term. I quite like some of these pieces.