Lookbook

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Aligned

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What do I want? 

Whenever I run out of steam, feel discouraged, or lost, I take time to ponder this question. When I do, I usually discover that I am trying to fulfill other people’s expectations, doing something that no longer interests me, or just need time alone. 

This question has guided my creative path from the start. It defined the materials I use, and the kind of pieces I create; as well as where and how I sell them. It also determines how much I charge for what I make, and the kind of customer I attract. 

When I ask this question, I re-connect with the dreams and ideas I feel most passionate about. Once I am focused, I can get back on my path charged with new energy.

Aligned necklace.
Handmade with amethyst and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Fortitude

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“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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— Rudyard Kipling

Fortitude necklace.
Handmade with labradorite and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Life

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I will allow the river of life to guide me. I will not make desperate attempts to stop change. To stop death. I will flow with ease, with joy.

I will look around and appreciate each moment as it passes, lush, green, abundant, alive! I will let go and be free. I will be present while it lasts.

Life necklace.
Handmade with prehenite and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Sonnet

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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
— Pablo Neruda

Sonnet ring. 
Handmade with spectrolite and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Available in my online shop on Monday.

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Unreal

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“The unreal is more powerful than the real...it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.”
— Chuck Palahniuk

Unreal ring.
Handmade with spectrolite and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Potential

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I used to think I was here for a reason. I believed there was a plan. But now I just think that it’s up to me to make something with my time. It’s also up to me to find meaning in what I do, and to tell myself stories that uplift me.

I read somewhere that, in the end, our lives always stand for something. I hope mine stands for possibility.

Potential ring.
Handmade with 100% recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Landscape

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I try to find beauty in balance, in spaciousness, in the relationships that exist between objects. I try to show how simplicity can be abundant.

Landscape necklace
Handmade with 100% recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Recollection

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Many of the jewelry pieces I design come from memories or unclear visions.

I vaguely recall a ring my mother often wore when I was little, but I can’t remember its exact shape, only that it was long and rectangular and looked fit for royalty.

I discover the image of a beautiful bracelet in a book on African art, only to look closely and realize it is the roof of a circular hut. 

I am fascinated by a necklace worn by a woman walking towards me on the street, and when she approaches I realize it was the reflection of the sun on her blouse. 

Recollection ring.
Handmade with 100% recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Completion

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I like finishing a series. After several days of focused work, it is the first chance I get to step back and take a careful look at what I made. 

I can see how one idea led to the next, what pieces move me more than others, and what changes I would make in the future. I am always left with more ideas than when I began.

Completion Totem.
Handmade with amethyst and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Available in my online shop.

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Embrace

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There is a large construction going on in the building next door, and for the past few months we have been awakened by loud bangs against our wall, which continue throughout the day. 

Instead of suffering, I decided to apply what I learnt from Vipassana meditation and accept things as they are. Now I join the sounds of demolition as I happily forge away, grateful to no longer be the only one that makes noise in this place.
 

Embraced Totem.
Handmade with amber and recycled sterling silver.
Available in my online shop.

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Constructed

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What most inspires me about Mexico City is the architecture. When I walk the streets I feel as if I travel through time, as houses from multiple eras line each block. There are hardly any building codes to limit style, so the colors, textures, heights and shapes are endless. 

Some constructions are finished, but others forever await the extra income needed to complete them. I find that this eclectic work-in-progress is the perfect expression of life itself, and as an artist I could not imagine a more stimulating landscape.

Constructed Totem. 
Handmade with carnelian and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Available in my online shop.

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Origami Totem

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I recently had the pleasure to read the interview Elizabeth Gilbert gave Tom Waits for GQ Magazine. 

In my favorite part, Tom Waits talks about how his children have enriched his creative process, and recalls a time when his daughter helped him write a song. 

"We were on a bus coming to L.A. and it was really cold outside. There was this transgender person –to be politically correct– standing on a corner wearing a short little top with a lot of midriff showing, a lot of heavy eye makeup and dyed hair, and a really short skirt. And this guy, or girl, was dancing all by himself. And my little girl saw it and said, "It must be really hard to dance like that when you're so cold and there's no music."

Origami Totem.
Handmade with labradorite and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Spyglass

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“Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

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— Tim Burton

Spyglass Totem.
Handmade with kyanite and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Available in my online shop.