Artist Statement

I want to be healed when I make jewelry. I enjoy the process of drawing, making paper models, rethinking, sawing, stonesetting, and hammering. Each piece of my work is one of a kind that is designed and handcrafted using precious raw stones, and sterling silver. Semi-transparent, different density, and calming color palettes give me peace.

I’m interested in correlations and interactions between geometric and organic shapes, connection, composition, size, and volume with silver and raw stones. Aesthetics, balance, and tranquility are significant in my work because they stimulate my deep sensitivity to the beauty keeping my best energy.

The ​Calm and Restless​ series authors a conversation between geometric and organic forms ​in the format of jewelry. ​The geometric is understandable and stable, whereas the organic pushes against limits of the safely known. In life, what we do, think, say, eat, and feel all require a considered balance, and through this awareness, we can grow. I want to translate this state into my work. The pieces engage in the rivalry between freedom and limitation, safety and the unknown, balance and disorder.