Andrea Haffner Studio

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Q&A with the Artist

Tell us how your work is made.

I make my pieces from natural materials that I’ve collected in explorations of diverse landscapes near and far. I examine, dissect, combine, and then compose these materials, suspending them in fine layers of hand colored resins within recycled sterling silver forms. Each piece is one-of-a-kind.

What makes you passionate about the medium you work with?

My work invites people to embrace the small: to observe, appreciate, and cherish the abundant natural forms that grow in the world around us and might otherwise be overlooked. More than ever, we need to honor and protect our environment. I also have an abiding interest in small containers, and love the way they can serve as both holders of precious things and deliberate points of focus.

What is something unique about you or your practice?

I enjoy creating custom work for others, utilizing small objects that have precious value. Recent commission materials include flowers pressed and saved from a long-ago first date, baby teeth, and sea urchin spines collected on the island where Amelia Earhart's airplane is thought to have gone down.