I have always been interested in wearable sculpture, and how my art can interact with and adorn the body. I experiment with this idea by creating pieces within the range of large costume sculptures to small practical jewelry pieces. I work primarily in silver, but I enjoy playing around with other metals like steel and aluminum. I also enjoy adding color to my work by incorporating gemstones or surface treatments to the metal. I am inspired by my love of nature when selecting the organic forms as well as the color schemes in my work, drawing from light reflections on lakes.

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I am a queer woman, and I love celebrating women, femininity, and relationships between people in my work. I do this through delicate ornamental forms and using them to create theatrical art jewelry. The goal of these pieces is to decorate and enhance the body to transform it into a performance. I am inspired by the fashion and costume design world and take fabric forms like bows and paisley patterns and translate them into metal. This idea matured into creating a narrative for my pieces. I want real people to be able to own and wear my pieces every day to celebrate their own identity. The same extravagance from my sculpture is present in my more practical jewelry pieces as an embodiment of specific stories for characters that I create.

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