The butterfly is the inspiration for artist Jessica Jing McCann. McCann sees the creature as both fragile and strong.
“The butterfly has always been my favorite insect,” said McCann, of O’Hara. She recalled a trip to a butterfly garden at Niagara Falls when she was 14. “I love the elegance and grace of a butterfly. I also love its strength and its fragility.”
The essence of the insect comes through in the art McCann fashions out of nickel.
She said making jewelry is a process. It begins with a design she creates through a sketch, which she builds into a paper model. She takes those pieces of paper and places them on the nickel. McCann cuts the material with a coping saw into the desired shapes. She files the edges and sands the metal before polishing the jewelry.
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image captionEric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge
A bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.
Jessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.
Eric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.
He was sentenced to two years and six months.
Ms Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.