Sculpting The Unbearable Lightness Of Silver And Gold

Artist Rita Grosse-Ruyken turns precious metals into such delicate works as Rays of Light, a solid-gold bowl less than one millimeter thick that “undulates with every sound and movement of the air” and The Silver Cord, in which “she cast, forged and hand-pulled refined silver into a diaphanous thread that she then wove into a [21-meter-long] quasi-transparent spatial structure.”