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Produced by Jennifer Cushman •
Photography by Borella and Company
 ARTIST’S PROFILE
As a mixed-media artist, author, and teacher, Susan Lenart Kazmer travels the
globe inspiring others to reconsider humankind’s discarded debris as objects of
beauty and history. Any item infused with interesting patina and raw edges or
etched by time is reborn into art. The artist established her niche as an expert
at “cold-joins,” a way of attaching metal without soldering, and has a
distinctive technique for working with resin. Her self-published book, Making
Connections; A Handbook of Cold Joins for Jewelers and Mixed-Media Artists, was
released this year and can be found on objectsandelements.com.
FRENCH LESSONS
Enraptured by the aged buildings of Paris, Susan created a journal about her experiences, incorporating found fibers and objects into her hand-forged steel and wire-wrapped diary. source Vintage Glass Shards, objectsandelements.com.
TRÈS JOLIE
(a) To add durability to the pages of her travel
journal, she treated
vintage ephemera bought at Parisian flea markets with a
thin layer of
resin. source Ice Resin, objectsandelements.com. (b) “It’s so elegant,” Susan says of French packaging. “I had
to save my
butter wrapper.”
SUSAN’S TOP TIPS
Don’t worry about what other people think of your art. For years, I never
showed my work to anyone because it was so different. Today, being different is
key to my fine art career.
If you’re attracted to a medium, go into your
studio and work it out. Learn everything you can about it. Become an expert
through trial and error.
Look at an object for what the material is and
discover how to alter the material. For example, a pencil is wood. You can burn
wood, etch it, drill it, etc.
 Stumble It!
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