A Ring-a-Day Designs

There is definitely something to be said for being forced to come up with a piece in a limited amount of time. You can’t spend too much time deliberating and you tend to kick your inner critique to the curb because you just don’t have time to care that much. Also, the simple rule … “Practice, practice, practice,” is one of the best adages to live by when trying to perfect a skill or even develop your own style. Challenges like “Ring-a-Day” or any ‘design on a regular schedule’ challenge will get you into constant practice as well as force you to leave that nagging and often debilitating inner critic behind.

The discipline and constant need to create something on a deadline in the “Ring-a-Day” challenges has led to some really creative designs in a variety of mediums but I think the outcome in polymer is just fascinating. Most of the people I’ve seen do the daily rings or a ring a week challenges in recent years end up going way outside the breadth of design and form commonly seen in polymer. As with most of the rings we’ve seen this week, this ring by Ponsawan Sila pushes the boundary of the space we are used to seeing rings confined in. She did a ring challenge in 2010 with a large majority being simply a compilation of more common polymer elements but if you look through what she posted on Flickr at that time, you can see where she just let go and really pushed both the idea of a ring and what polymer rings might be.

To see Ponsawan’s variety in her ring challenge go to her Flickr pages a few years back. Go take a look at her most recent work on Flickr as well. Just eat first or when you get to the food photos you’re going to get seriously distracted! She also shares her work and her thoughts on her blog and in her Etsy shop.

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