safarisister

Hello and welcome to my humble digital abode here on Craftstylish. My name is Jacky Powell, artist designer aka SafariSister. This digital persona evolved over many years by myself, friends & family as a kind of embodiment (and funny caricature) of my travels and art experiments over the years. A light hearted tag that most of us creatives can id with -- to adventure, to travel, to create to go where no girl has gone before for that ah-ha moment!!!

So here i am at experiment #349 - im currently living in Mexico City, working as a independent artist in custom findings and jewelry, as a digital UI designer for interactive media experiences, learning Spanish or losing English. (If i were actually living closer to the water i would add scuba diving to that list :)

These days im more of a digital metalsmith, although at one time i could raise a silver bowl or set a gem properly -- but i am a traveler and a wanderer and explorer. Its the problem solving that is interesting to me -- deducing the motion of a persons walk, how to compose music and create graphical worlds with 0s and 1s, how identical and yet so completely unique humans are across cultural spectrums....which always leads me back to this mechanical fiddling, traveling to find, looking up physical properties, learning about the history of, in and around beads. In my own little corner in my own little room i can be whatever i want to be. Its fabulous!

It makes me really happy to engineer findings, make jewelry, draw, animate anything and investigate the latest digital art technology and tools!!

I am also currently working on Metal Minutes videos to share my 25 years of experience in metal and digtal arts with fellow artists.

Drop a convo if you have an experiment in mind that i can make for you or just to share an experiment :]

Wishing you a great moment!!!

WE LOVE Craftstylish :>

best regards,

Jacky Powell aka SafariSister
http://safarisister.esty.com [Handmade Findings & Beads]
http://www.safarisister.com [Jewelry Portfolio - coming]
http://www.jackypowell.com [Digital Design - coming]
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackypowell [Resume]
http://flickr.com/photos/safarisister/ [Life in Mexico]
http://jackypowell.blogspot.com/ [Jewelry How-Tos]

craft interests: jewelry making, metal, mixed media, polymer clay, glass

my personal website:
http://www.safarisister.com

my etsy page:
http://safarisister.etsy.com

Member Since: 01/25/2009