I’ve made art movies, art photos, paintings of fish, motion graphics, 3d models for sets, photo scans. I was a bit unsettled until I took a photo scan I made of a tree from a park in my neighborhood and turned it into a physical object. I was hooked the moment I held it in my hand. I knew I was going to use the computer to make small metal objects. So jewelry. It’s small, metal, labor intensive, and beautiful. It holds my interest. I’m able to think with the material and the process. The flexibility of silver and the computer give me the ability to do almost anything that comes into my mind. I like to push myself out of my comfort zone when I make things. It’s fun. Everything is brought into jewelry making. I’m always learning as I make my pieces.
I spend most of my time designing on the computer in a 3d modeling program called Zbrush. It’s like working in clay or wax but without the mess. I also own a 3d printer so I’m able to print many copies of the models during the design process, mainly to see and feel their size and proportions. I lose my sense of scale while working on the computer since I can zoom in very close to the model. Sometimes I zoom in too closely and the details are not printable or see-able. My final designs are printed in a castable resin at the most detailed setting on the printer. These are cast in sterling silver or gold. Then I finish them, clean them up, add the patina, set the stones (sometimes), fabricate things like clasps and jump rings. I do everything. I’m a one person shop.
The pieces themselves are mainly sterling silver with a liver of sulfur patina, many times with gemstones, which I often cut myself. They begin with a question, an intuition, a reference, or a gemstone which has inspired me.
I’m self-taught on the computer and in jewelry. My degrees are in film and illustration. I’ve taken lapidary and metal classes at Brooklyn Metal Works. In fact, everything I’ve learned about metal and stones I’ve learned at BKMW.
In 2022, at the American Craft Council’s St. Paul show, I was given an Award for Excellence in Jewelry. It was my first serious show.
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