About

An unsubstantiated 2017 study concluded that
the person behind dirt & starlight (that would be me) was a magpie in a former life.
How else could one individual have collected so very many THINGS??

My history includes marine science, woodworking, creative writing, mechanics, and ornithology; they are all somewhere in this work.

My materials are mostly salvaged, reclaimed, or gathered from the outdoors.

My method is slow- not by design, but because I am incapable of doing anything quickly.
(If you know a hack for this, you win free jewelry!)
It is both intentional and filled with trial and error.

Matter comes together, breaks apart, realigns.
Everything is always changing…
from the sublime to the ridiculous, and back again.
I try to catch a moment in that flight.

Often what I create has its own ideas about what it wants to be, and I am NOT making this up.

Here is a secret:
The process of working with metal is actually magic.

Enough words.

Take a look.