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Studio Archive
Works,
Studies &
Pearl Oddities
2025 — Present
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02 / The Wall
Selected
Works
A moving wall of past pieces, studies, experiments and small characters from the Pearlolo archive.
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Haunted Chapel Sprite
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Prancing Fawn
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Golden Spellkeeper
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Mango Bloom Sprite
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Venom Spider Sprite
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Carrot Bunny Sprite
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Thorned Cross Sprite
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Watermelon Patch Sprite
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03 / The Pearl Room
Before character,
there was a pearl.
Natural baroque forms, shifting luster, color and irregularity — the starting point of every Pearlolo piece.
Luster Study / 01
Surface / 02
Overtone / 03
Irregular Form / 04
In Motion
Luster changes with light / 12 sec
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04 / The Table
Ideas live here
before they
become anything.
Sketches, revisions, abandoned studies and small decisions that happen before a piece ever reaches the wall.
Drawing Study / 01
Early character notes
Early character notes
Material + Form / 02
Pearl selection & sketching
Pearl selection & sketching
From Paper to Pearl / 03
Form taking shape
Form taking shape
Abandoned Studies / 04
Forms that stayed on the table
Forms that stayed on the table
Studio Archive / Selection
Not everything
makes the cut.
Some ideas are reshaped. Some are rebuilt. Some never leave the table. These are a few of them.
Working notes / revisions / abandoned forms
05 / The Cabinet
Things that taught
us something.
Practice pieces, broken attempts, unused components, materials and small mistakes that rarely make it into the finished photographs.
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Hat Training
Before color, flowers or tiny details appear,
the basic hat form has to feel right.
These white studies are where proportion,
curve and structure are practiced first.
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Which Flower Is Better?
A flower can be tiny and still change the character
of an entire piece. Petal shape, depth and spacing
are tested again and again before one version stays.
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Burger Training
The burger is built one layer at a time.
Even surfaces that disappear once the layers are stacked
are shaped and colored, simply so the final form still
feels believable when everything comes together.
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The Red Palette
Not every archive object is beautiful.
Some are simply tools that quietly stay on the table
while everything else takes shape.
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Broken During Inlay
Sometimes a piece does not survive the process.
Cutting and working directly into a natural pearl
always carries a small amount of risk.
This one broke before it could become anything else.
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Rejected Components
Finished does not always mean usable.
Some components are set aside because the proportion,
surface or final character simply does not feel right.
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Small Button Studies
Small scale does not mean simple.
Each tiny surface still has to carry enough color,
carving and character to stand on its own.
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The Strawberry That Was Wrong
This one had already been finished when the problem
finally became obvious.
Studio Note / Discovered Later
We thought this one was finished.
Then we noticed the seeds. On a real strawberry, the seeds sit inside tiny depressions in the surface. In this version, ours were raised outward instead. The hat was already complete, but the structure was wrong — so it stayed in the studio.
Studio Archive / 05
Some things become pieces.
Some become lessons.
06 / Exit
You've reached
the present.
The archive ends here. What Pearlolo is making now lives just beyond it.
The archive continues.