To the Next Hex - Large Product:Extra Large This cigar band is fabricated

This cigar band is fabricated of oxidized sterling silver with 18k gold inlay and the artist's signature hand texture

Suspended from handcrafted sterling silver ear wires

The handmade beads are combined with Thai Hill Tribe silver beads

and is woven into the cultural history of the American Southwest

Tiles can be grouped for a larger arrangement

To the Next Hex - Large Product:Extra Large This cigar band is fabricatedCreated by Tim Forcade from a composite of 15 overlapping photographs of a still life set in his studio. He used a compound camera he assembled that works much like a precision view camera joined with a high resolution digital camera. The fact that the camera body moves independently of the lens makes this compositing process possible. Forcade used the composite as a starting point in subsequent steps that involved composition, collage, and painting