Jeweled snow #1. 11″ x 7 1/2″

Seaside forest#1 – 20″ x 12″

On park place #1

Jeweled snow #2. 16″ x 11″

Jeweled snow #3 8 1/2″ X 16″

Winds of seaside 12″ x 16″

On park place #2- 8 1/2″ x 16″

Seaside forest #2 – 16″ x 12″

Seaside forest #3 – 16″ x 12″

On park place #3 8 1/2″ x 17″

Jeweled snow#4- 8 1/2″ x 14″

Jeweled snow #5. 9″ x 10″

The old tree! 9″ x 10″

Dancing shadows 12″x 12″

In the shadows. 12″ x 12″

Dark shadows- 12″ x 12″

Spring

Spring will come. 12″ x 18″

Dark skies- 12″ x 18″

Among the stars. 24″ x 54″

Among the stars. 24″ x 54″

One day at a time.

21 days in the studio.

A series of 21 thread drawings.  Clusters of beads encapsulated between two layers of tulle with stitched lines.

21/1- 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/2 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/3 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/4 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/5 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/6 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/7 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/8 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/9 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

211/10 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/11 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/12 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/13 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/14 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/15 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/16 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/17 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/18 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/19 – 12″ x 9 1/2″

21/20 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

21/21 – 9 1/2″ x 12″

Encapsulations · Encapsulations · Encapsulations · Encapsulations · Encapsulations

Two Artists | One Work

A Collaboration

Ani Afshar | David Sharpe

Two Artists. (one). Framed

Two Artists. (Two) 12″ x 18″

Two Artists. (Three) 15″ x 18″

Two Artists. (Four) 12 1/2 X 17″

Two Artists. (Five) 22″ x 30″

Two Artists. (Six) 15″ x 20″

Two Artists. (Seven) 16″ x 22″

Encapsulations · Encapsulations · Encapsulations · Encapsulations · Encapsulations

Encapsulated Stones, Pearls and Beads to Wear….

Necklaces

Necklaces

Necklace

Turquoise Pendant

Turquoise bracelet

Scarf

Necklace

Le Néant Enfilé · The Threaded Void · Le Néant Enfilé · The Threaded Void · Le Néant Enfilé · The Threaded Void

Layers of tulle spider stitched to become a field of emptiness where stories can be told in the vocabulary of the tulle constructions.

Sunshine – 26″ x 35″

Gray Sky – 26″ x 37″

Black Bundles in Red – 27″ x 31″

Color and Void – Purple – 16 1/2″ x 18″

Color and Void – Red – 16 1/2″ x 18″

Color and Void – Gray – 16 1/2″ x 18″

Color and Void – Aqua – 16 1/2″ x 18″

The Adventures of a Gold Sari

A gold sari from India traveled to Iran in 1962 to become a party dress and went to two weddings before coming to me ten years later!!

As the years went on , it became old and frail. To be saved and have a new history it became my story.

I took it’s flowers and circles and introduced them to my world of needle, thread and living.

Fragments of the gold sari and photographs of the Swiss Alps taken by me in 1959 while in boarding school are Encapsulated between two layers of spider stitched tulle.

The Gold Sari in the Alps #1 – 19″ x 25″

The Gold Sari in the Alps #2 – 19″ x 42″

The Gold Sari Cries for Allepo – 29″ x 32″

One Century, Two Stories #1 – 14″ x 45″

One Century, Two Stories #2 – 14″ x 45″

CAPTIVE HISTORY · CAPTIVE HISTORY · CAPTIVE HISTORY · CAPTIVE HISTORY · CAPTIVE HISTORY

Images + Bits and Pieces.

I am not a photographer.

But sometimes I take pictures.

I am not a jewelry designer. 

But I learned how to make jewelry to sell to a capricious and fast moving fashion industry.

The two meet in CAPTIVE HISTORY – Images + Bits and Pieces.