My work is inspired by the distinctive voice of jewelry as a cultural artifact understood in the psychological and social context of the body/wearer.

To make the familiar visible as symbolic, I embrace jewelry signifiers—human scale, fine detail, gemstones, botanical and amuletic forms. I then unsettle that familiarity through material contradictions, obsessive construction, interaction with the body and contextual framing via presentation boxes / displays.

Subject matter and curiosity drives my choice of materials and process. I conflate traditional jewelry materials and skilled handwork, with steel, aluminum, found objects or textiles incorporating lapidary, digital photography, engraving, and laser cutting.

Over time, I have created diverse bodies of work while consistently returning to the same underlying question; how meaning takes shape through objects...and how that meaning is negotiated between individuals, bodies, and social situations.

Whether engaging questions of gender / social identity, grief and commemoration, superstition and healing, or cultural displacement, I aim to create work that is approachable yet unresolved, inviting a broad audience to a conversation grounded in empathy.