About my work
Self-adornment is the oldest art form and a generous one, used to wordlessly communicate something about the wearer to anyone who cares to look. Jewelry is defined by its relationship to the human body, and whatever I make has to respect the body by sitting lightly on it or wrapping easily around it. I’m particularly interested in the kind of fine detailing that rewards close inspection.
I continuously create collections to follow new visual lines of thought, filling sketchbooks with black ink drawings and turning them into metal. I chose jewelry as my medium because of its accessibility, and because of the intrinsic visual delights and lasting qualities of gold and silver. Jewelry gives its wearers some measure of control over their environment in a world in which very little is in our control. Our lives are overwhelmed by an infrastructure we didn’t create and by the systems that produced it. If every last thing can’t be beautiful, at least we can hoard our small treasures and carry them with us as an act of resistance.