I was recently discussing different jewelry parts (yes, like body parts) with a friend who was trying to figure out what to have me make as a  gift for his girlfriend.  I believe every different form carries a specific emotional weight, even before you personalize it.  Brooches are  a degree of separation away from intimacy […]

If I have an idea and the metal has another idea, the metal wins. Whenever I make something, part of it comes from me and the rest of it comes from somewhere else; there is a thing that wants to get made, and my role is to usher it from the realm of the unseen […]

Not every single thing has to be profound. It’s easy for me to fall into self-criticism for being shallow or making pieces that are Not Important, but the truth is that human beings need lightness of spirit to balance out the weight of just existing in this world. In the last several days, I’ve heard […]

I am by nature, or nurture, a lazy person. I’m not proud of this; in fact, I REALLY wish it were not so. I’ve read that in Buddhism, there are three kinds of laziness. Now, I’m not a Buddhist, so I’m just taking someone’s word about this. The first kind is regular laziness, where we […]