Intricate, finely executed reproductions of natural beauty. Botanical jewelry cast in high karat gold and in silver, set with precious and semi precious stones. Sculpture that reflects my ruminations on the psyche.
Mother Nature is the deep and beautiful matrix of our existence. She is, brilliantly, a million times a million things firing simultaneously. Just like neurons or starlight, she is an immeasurable hodgepodge that operates much like the unconscious. All the crazy shifting and morphing ‘out there’? It goes on, equally, inside our heads. In her fluid complexity and myriad forms she is the entity that mirrors, most formidably, our inner nature, our mind. She is the psyche’s well for metaphor, and my muse.
The delicate flutes and spines of milkweed flowers, the cascading spirals of Romanesco in its soft radiant green, the diaphanous windowpane of a pollinator’s wings that lift it from one flower to the next …to contemplate Mother Nature is to discover an intrinsic logic that is sublime, dynamic and out of the reach of binary calculations. She is the embodiment of what is sacred and within her the spiritual resides. We are exalted and deepened by her. This is my jumping off point. I am a nature lover who makes things out of my great regard and endless fascination with Mother Nature.
As a full blown bee spotter, my jewelry work morphs directly out of my love and admiration for pollinators and flowers. The alchemists aspired to turn lead into gold. I pursue an adjunct of their mysticism that I have dubbed, with tongue-in-cheek, a ‘Fool’s Alchemy’. I turn flowers into gold! Using the applications of mold making and lost wax casting, I reproduce her etheric, inimitable forms into ones of everlasting permanence, that is, into metal. It is my way to breathe eternity in to her ephemeral beauty.
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