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Imagination Bodies Forth, Eastern repousse copper bound artist book with hand lettering (being shown by Victoria)
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Immortalizing Moments in Metal + Big Announcement

Highlights from the exhibition Radiant Echoes My retrospective Radiant Echoes showcases 100 unique works of art, which are approximately 10% of the total body of metalwork I’ve created since I began in 1989. Now that all the exhibition’s gallery rooms are open, this winter and spring I’d like to share a few of my favorite…

Entwine VI - A mesmerizing display of Russian filigree expertise in this intricate 3D Filigree jewelry creation
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From Spiral Galaxies to Whorls of Wire: A Conversation with Victoria Lansford

by Rauni Higson Victoria Lansford’s striking use of filigree to create complex sculptural forms evokes ethereal forces of nature, cosmic storms, and manifestations of the invisible threads holding together the universe. While I grew up knowing the Nordic tradition of filigree well and was drawn in by its details – domed shapes filled with endless,…

Radiant Echoes: The Metal Mastery of Victoria Lansford front cover
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What’s in a Book? – A Deeper Dive into the Monograph Radiant Echoes

Books are wildly intimate things. Books can be funnels: small openings that lead into larger spaces. From the moment I open one, I sense an unfolding that draws me into a portal that expands my sense of time.
Creating books, however, has an opposite effect. Imagine starting at the open end of the funnel and having to compress all the information that narrows to the opening…

Coronation Ring II, Russian filigree ‘dinner ring’ by Victoria Lansford; photo by Pat Vasquez-Cunningham
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35 Years: Forging Ahead with a Mouse and a Pond Skimmer

Spring here continues in all its glory. The trees are nearly leafed out, which means soon I’ll be able to stop skimming oak flowers out of the fish pond. Skimming them does no good for the many displaced cervical discs in my neck, but it’s so calming that I can’t resist. This is how I…