My jewelry and small metalwork shows my preoccupation with the human body, it’s history of protection and adornment.

Jewelry is also a relic that shows us who we are today and gives us access to memory and history. There has always been a cosmology for the wearing of adornment, from armor to earring: in order to please the sexes, to protect from others, to designate family and tribe, to indicate relationship to God (s), to protect and identify in battle, and many other permutations.  And these things are still true in the modern world. I am profoundly interested in this phenomena.

As an object maker, I am interested in the visual play of dichotomies such as Rough/Smooth, Fine / Crude, Interior / Exterior, Ancient/Modern, and Feminine / Masculine, Machine/Organic.