Jewelry is both intimately located and publicly encountered. My work is shaped by this interest in relational experience: how objects mediate social roles, private and public identities, belief systems, and the influence of place. Whether engaging questions of social identity, grief, commemoration, superstition, healing, or cultural displacement, I create work that invites a broad audience to a conversation grounded in empathy.

My works are mixed media using steel, aluminum, glass, found objects, textiles and incorporate digital photography, etching, laser cutting and traditional metals/processes.
To invite recognition before interpretation - I embrace familiar jewelry signifiers—human scale, fine detail, gemstones, botanical forms, amulets... gestures of adornment. The aim is to make the familiar visible as symbolic. Skillful detail and complexity solicit attentiveness, creating heightened sensitivity in which materials and process become content understood in the context of the personal and social functions of jewelry.

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.