I am drawn to the ring as a form and as a holder of meaning.  While I am equally capable to create any other form of jewelry, I find the most joy in making rings.  To me a ring asserts its meaning whether it is through sentimentality, love, status, or otherwise.  A ring is the most honest piece of jewelry because of these meanings and how easily they are communicated often without the wearer’s knowledge.  When one wears a ring, they do not always stop to think if the ring matches their outfit as they do when choosing earrings, necklaces, or bracelets; a ring, therefore, reflects the wearer’s personality consistent over time, independent of changing moods.  In my work, I try to make pieces with meanings such that the wearer cannot escape the communication through passive wearing.

To me art is more than the end product.  The process of making is often times as artistic as the creation itself.  In my “Wearable Instruments,” there is an in-depth process to the designing of each piece.  Each time I approach one of these pieces, I research a source instrument to base it off of and how that instrument literally functions to create sound.  In these pieces, learning and figuring out how to make sound is as large a part of the piece as the existence of the object that was created.  While I am satisfied that the end results are successful, it is the process which provoked the most thought and interest.  It is important to me then, to leave some evidence of the process so that each piece can maintain some of its own interesting and unique history.