Many times people discover talents they did not know they had, and this artist from St. Louis reached back into her heritage to pull inspiration for her jewelry pieces. Not she is able to combine beads, florals, and stories from her past into her jewelry, and we are just happy that it is a hometown person showing the world their talent.
After the birth of her daughter, Naomi, Saleem set up a studio in a spare bedroom at her University City home. “My husband tore apart an old writing desk, raised it up and modified it for my workbench. We call it the Franken-bench,” she says.
The pieces she created on that ersatz bench led this outgoing artist on a revealing journey of self-discovery.
A heritage in silver, stones and beads • Saleem often enhances her sterling silver jewelry with turquoise or sapphires, cool colors that hint of the oceans. Hanks of African trade beads and glass beads hang on the wall.
These three earrings, in combination of worked florals and trade beads, unites Saleem’s European and African ancestry in the design. Photo by Taylor Saleem
“I learned my heritage is 17 percent Nigerian through Ancestry.com. My beadwork is influenced by the multistrand jewelry of the Yoruba tribe. I recently bought 45 pounds of African trade beads from a gentleman from Gabon that I am incorporating in my pieces,” she says.
Saleem, who is biracial and identifies as Black, integrates her European ancestry into her pieces with flowers, cut into metal or cast. “When I worked part-time as a librarian, I discovered Culpepper’s Complete Illustrated Herbal,” she says. The book Nicholas Culpepper penned more than 350 years ago still inspires herbalists, writers and artists today with its complex language of flowers.
Each photo in her Taylor Saleem Jewelry Instagram account carries Saleem’s notes, often lyrical, sometimes funny, and always encouraging. “Storytelling is important in my work. I have depression, which went undiagnosed for a long time. Now diagnosed and treated, when I’m feeling something I can’t verbalize, I can say it through the flowers.”
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Coronavirus has fully taken hold of the world, and definitely the United States, and isn’t going anywhere any time soon. This holds true for sports as well, and even our hometown teams are feeling the impacts. Sports are trying to re-start, but our Cardinals are already having to postpone games as players test positive.
In the past 48 hours, the team has flown together from Milwaukee to St. Louis, practiced together twice at Busch Stadium, and returned to their homes.
Members of the Cardinals’ traveling party have been testing every day.
They have been taking the saliva exams that are processed by MLB’s labs, and they have been getting results within 24 hours. Standard practice is to now respond with rapid tests to quickly get a handle on the new positive and where the virus might spread next.
The team needed to have two consecutive days of no new positives to leave their quarantine at a Milwaukee hotel. They received word that they had no new positives on Monday and Tuesday tests, as administered by MLB, and that allowed them to leave the hotel and Milwaukee on Wednesday morning.
The Cardinals had 13 members of their traveling party test positive for COVID-19 while they were on the most recent road trip. Of those 13, seven were players. Six chose to identify themselves: All-Stars Yadier Molina and Paul DeJong, relievers Junior Fernandez and Kodi Whitley, infielders Rangelo Ravelo and Edmundso. The Cardinals also placed pitcher Carlos Martinez on the injured list, though Martinez has, through his representative, twice declined to reveal the results of his test or nature of his injury.
Several of the players had mild symptoms of the virus, ranging from coughs to headaches and low-grade fevers. All of the players had seen improvement in their symptoms by Thursday, Shildt said. Some members of the support staff had more serious symptoms and were ill, the manager said. He added that no one had acute enough symptoms to be hospitalized.
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