Salvage

1″ x 1.5″, glass and found objects A friend is moving, and she’s decided to have a zero-waste move, throwing nothing out as she packs.  It’s created a tremendous amount of extra work for her, and taken so much time, but it’s a nice goal....

Nestled II

1″ diameter, found objects The first piece I added to this pendant was a gear. It fit perfectly, nestling into the outer ring. But there were spaces left between each tooth. I found beads that nestled right into the spaces, filling them completely. And with a...

Aligned

2″ x .5″, ceramic tiles I spent this week at the enormous annual conference of the American Public Health Association. Thousands of people in a big convention center trying to rush from one end of the building to another to catch the sessions and speakers...

Aging

1″x  .75″, found objects As you know by now, I love the natural patinas that materials develop over time.  Every time I used to go to Europe I’d remember that the time scale for buildings and roads and aqueducts was so different there.  The finish on...

Stuck

1″ x 2″, glass I think a lot about what’s next; planning for the future and trying to optimize.  And sometimes the number of things I have to do each day feels like an over-commitment, filling every hour and making it hard to change course.  But the...

Fall

.5″ x 2″, dichroic glass I had some complicated thoughts about pendant designs for this week, but the colors of the leaves on every block are so vibrant that I couldn’t get them out of my head and they snuck into the pendant. I love the way the dichroic...