Great editor, where are you?

I love how in the chaos of this world, words flow out of me. Sometimes too many words. Emotions and thoughts are hard for me to express succinctly. My great editor comes through in my jewelry. That's where the chaos falls away. Where a pearl can represent a simple bud. A curling line can be a meandering path. Where forms are boiled down to some essential expression of beauty. Of simplicity.

You can find beauty in the forms themselves, or in their handcrafted nature. You can enjoy how, like ourselves, the same shapes repeated are similar but different. My work aims to capture that organic nature. To help us take notice and elevate the idea of simplicity. To reach over the smog of troubles, appointments and busy-ness to where the air is clear; there is space, there's room to move, grow and appreciate.

I work a lot with contrasts because they help us to appreciate and focus on different parts at different times. When looking at an oxidized piece with white pearls, sometimes the white pearls will pop forward and shine. You'll appreciate their random patterns. At other times you may notice the oxidized wire, see some details in the line work, notice a color within the patina when the light hits it.

Working asymmetrically achieves the same effect. Placements of components are unexpected, allowing your eyes to dance and appreciate how an unusual balance is achieved. Sometimes this unexpected is uncomfortable. You have to learn how to not want to control and impose order. Learn acceptance of unexpected beauty, of imbalance and imperfection... how nature is.

There is no "perfect" in nature, yet when we are in nature, we feel that it is perfect. We can let go of control and just be. We accept and take in what is. That is what I try to capture in my forms. In the meditative wrapping. The creation of my work takes me to a deeper place, a place that is quiet, serene, pure; a place where simplicity lives and words fall away. Each creation becomes a bridge to that place, a way to connect to simpler things in our world. Handmade things, beautiful forms. A place without clutter.