As precious objects age, more and more memories become associated with them, and they acquire historical and emotional significance.  I have always been attracted to the emotionally provocative power of jewelry. As a young girl, I remember looking through both my grandmother’s and mother’s jewelry boxes and inquiring about the significance of each piece kept inside. 

Jewelry can function as a means of accessing and evidencing life experience, becoming “emotional repositories,” and often sealing in emotions related to whoever gifted the piece of jewelry, who once wore it, the perceived economic value and the stories associated with it.  My work explores this relationship between life experience and possessions.  By combining the relatively permanent material of metal with the ephemeral qualities of memory, emotion and sensory experience, I create jewelry that serves as an amulet - amplifying and enhancing the emotional, mental, and psychological qualities the wearer wishes to cultivate.