Artist Statement

I have an obsession with functional things. Be it a lighter, a pair of scissors, or even a piece of paper, tangible things that invite touch grab my attention and come to life just feeling their presence in my own hands.

Objects in our lives are often created with an interactive purpose: they are held, assembled, manipulated, configured, refilled. I am deeply attracted to the magical moments when we make contact with our creations, giving them life and performing a function. Body adornment should be no different. I challenge the long- standing notion that jewelry serves solely to be looked at and create systems of aesthetic based on and glorifies functionality.

We all live inside stories with imagined landscapes layered upon the real. The objects we own, use, and fantasize about make up and communicate who we are; property, too is a place where fiction steps in. By choosing the objects to own and desire, we create fictional worlds to live in, and expand our identities into countless new contexts. "Property fiction" has the power to unfurl and anchor us in the realm of imagination where we escape and dream, offering a place to exist beyond day-to-day life. I aspire to bring the intersection of kinetics and my love for storytelling to a material conception.