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Artist Statement
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I'm a self-taught art jeweler using mixed metal fabrication,
found objects, antique photos, and stamped text to create
pieces that are philosophical explorations. By nature a
scavenger and recycler, I'm drawn to rusty bits of metal seen
on a walk, jars of old buttons at a garage sale, antique keys,
dice or photos at a flea market. THe objects I find seem infused
to me with meaning, through their own history, use, and place
in the culture of our recent past. In this resonance, I find a
design vocabulary; lenses might suggest closer examination,
ruler segments to discuss personal measurement, antique
photos suggest our shared histories and humanity, keys and
locks symbols of our defenses and locked away secret places.
Joined together with stamped text that explores our oral
traditions, the designs discuss the common themes of life and
living. As I design and fabricate the pieces, they become the
synthesis of my life experiences, thoughts, and searching,
meant to be shared meditations with others.
The value of my work is not in the objects or the metals which
bind them together, but in the shared and recognized
commonality of our lives.
found objects, antique photos, and stamped text to create
pieces that are philosophical explorations. By nature a
scavenger and recycler, I'm drawn to rusty bits of metal seen
on a walk, jars of old buttons at a garage sale, antique keys,
dice or photos at a flea market. THe objects I find seem infused
to me with meaning, through their own history, use, and place
in the culture of our recent past. In this resonance, I find a
design vocabulary; lenses might suggest closer examination,
ruler segments to discuss personal measurement, antique
photos suggest our shared histories and humanity, keys and
locks symbols of our defenses and locked away secret places.
Joined together with stamped text that explores our oral
traditions, the designs discuss the common themes of life and
living. As I design and fabricate the pieces, they become the
synthesis of my life experiences, thoughts, and searching,
meant to be shared meditations with others.
The value of my work is not in the objects or the metals which
bind them together, but in the shared and recognized
commonality of our lives.
