The supply of found metal on our city's streets is endless. Each finding is unique, but some are exceptional. These spark innovations and explorations with materials and methods. I love the creative demands. Trying new surfaces in these photographs as well. The light has softened with the change of season to a perfect "studio" setting. Autumn has brought a welcome lessening in the temperature too.
I come to studio art and craft from graphic design. To balance my computer-based career, I stepped back into art first with drawing. I drew the classical subject of the body, striving to capture beauty and strength embodied.
The artist and designer merged when I began to create shadow boxes. These works unleashed my propensity to collect feathers, rocks, and whatnots; and my love of wood, tools, and metal workings. In my boxes I juxtapose found and created elements and explores “burrs," kernels of truth, perception, and unsettling beauty.
My love of metal and tools and workings now has me completely entangled in jewelry. My pieces are well-crafted, inventive, and dedicated to repurposing and recycling found elements.
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