about

From the Artist

I enrolled in my first metals workshop in midlife to keep myself busy through the end of a painful marriage. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣When my teen stepson died in 2015, I poured my grief into my fledgling metalwork. I made a bracelet in his memory, etched with a poem to him; in the months that followed, I was comforted by its presence. From within this loss, I found my voice.

Today, I create expressive narrative and memento mori jewelry. I have had a lifelong affinity for writing contemporary poetry, and the concepts I convey in my writing and metalwork coalesce throughout my creative process, each informing and inspiring the other.

I was content to draw and daydream among the faded tintypes, abandoned bureaus, and ghosts. 

I grew up in rural Ohio on my grandparent's defunct farm, wading through sighing corn fields under humming power lines. I delighted in my grandmother's drafty farmhouse, the crumbling 19th-century poetry books, and the hidden room filled with blurry snapshots, tissue flowers, and inky letters from dead ancestors. Enchanted in this landscape of mysterious artifacts, I was content to draw and daydream among the faded tintypes, abandoned bureaus, and ghosts.

At university, I trained in the aesthetics of the Swiss School of graphic design. Though I don't often employ the minimal style of my formal training in my jewelry work, the design principles of visual organization and typography remain ever present. 

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