Song of a Hoopoe - Medium Product:Medium Cut and polished lip offers

Cut and polished lip offers a smooth

Band is sterling silver

hand-carved and marquis-cut center setting affixed to a 12 gauge hammer textured shank

along with many borrowed shapes from traditional eastern architecture

Beautifully asymmetrical

Song of a Hoopoe - Medium Product:Medium Cut and polished lip offersA tranquil work that offers a close up look at the distinctive crown of feathers the hoopoe is known for, this mixed media piece is an original photograph printed with archival pigment inks on cotton printmaking paper. Ishii highlights the image with colored pencils to create a painterly effect and affixes the print to a cradled wood panel with PVA. She coats the piece with wax to give the image a translucent quality, and the sides of the board are