Larry Vasquez was born in Roswell, New Mexico on “the same day aliens landed.” The events of his birthday, his spirituality and his cultural heritage all inform his exquisite wearable art. Vasquez blends his own gold and mills it for fabrication to create vividly colored 18 to 22 kt. golds, which he refers to as “treasure gold” for a hue reminiscent of an Aztec treasure. He hand crafts all of the beads in his necklaces, grinding them down from their natural form and rolling and polishing them into beads, requiring an average of 16 steps to make just one bead. Vasquez includes a poem with each piece of jewelry he creates calling it a “birth certificate” for the proud collector.
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