About Posy
Posy DiPaolo is a jewelry and ceramic artist who is working in San Francisco. Posy is currently attending California College of the Arts and expect to graduate December 2025. Originally from Southern California, Posy has lived in India, Vermont, Budapest, Oregon, and England. Their time living abroad greatly informs their artistic practice.
Posy’s practice consists of using work to share memory, narrative, and time through interactive pieces containing repetitive motifs to reflect their principles. Living abroad has given Posy a desire to archive memories. A lot of their work focuses on relationships, environments and experiences they wishes to honor.
Posy gravitates towards metal working. Posy sees reusing materials as a way to preserve an object’s memory and transform it into something new. Metal is the perfect medium because of metal’s inherent malleability. By reclaiming used or broken metals and recycling them into new works, the lineage of past pieces are preserved within the new work. This point of view sparks new conversations surrounding material sourcing and sustainability, that is integral to Posy’s artistic practice and moral standing. Sustainability is crucial to their practice as Posy’s aim is to create while simultaneously reducing waste.
Posy hopes to continue to create works that foster conversation beyond a chosen medium. These conversations bring new dimension and longevity to their work.
My Work
Necklace
Silver
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Background
Three Eared Rabbit
A necklace I made for a rabbit loving client whose lucky number is 3.
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Solution
I hollow constructed the rabbit using a hydraulic press, chasing and repousse. I sawed 3 little 3s on the back of the rabbit. The chain is a Byzantine construction connected by a sister hook
Nature Spoons
Copper
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Background
Inspired by leaves and sticks collecting rain water found in san francisco
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Solution
Made with copper using various techniques like hollow construction, chasing, patina and colored pencil
Silver Spoon
Silver
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Background
Hand fabricated silver spoon made with love, so she can stir her coffee every morning in style
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Solution
Starting with a speculum (long cone) to create the handle and a hydraulic pressed form to create the bowl of the spoon I connected them. To create a lid, I made a lip that would fit in the top of the speculum with a circle formed to be a half round. To honor her love of poodles, I hand carved one using needle files from a thick slab of silver. All with a high polish finish.
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The secret
Attached to the poodle is a banner reading “I love you.”
BRACELET
Copper and Silver and Shibuichi
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Background
a bracelet about a place I hold dear
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Solution
I roller printed silver sheet with hair for two reasons: it makes the bracelet have a hazy feeling, and so much of the history of New England’s nature has to do with sheep. I added four small important images using shibuichi, an alloy of copper and silver, to have a color contrast. The images consisted of a small sheep, a stone wall, a train, and cow utters. I continued the shibuichi in the rivets for the hinges to add contrast throughout the piece.
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The Why
When thinking about a special place I always end up thinking about Putney, Vermont. I lived there when I was in highschool and that is one of the places I feel most connected. When attending school in Putney I took a class called physiological ecology where I read the book Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels and illustrated by Brain Cohen. The book made me understand so much of my surroundings in New England, so when giving the assignment to make a bracelet about a place I wanted to share part of the story I read in my bracelet. I wanted it to be in panels to emulate the book so I decided to work with hinges.
What I do
Creations filled with love and a little bit of whimsy
Bespoke Jewelry
Bespoke Ceramics
Art Critiques
