Coral Bleu

Incorporating metaphysical ideology into my designs is natural for me, as it creates a conceptual momentum that directs eyes. While medium is important, use of bold colors such as cyans, black, white, shades of blues, and reds are my favorite inclusions. Neutral tones and dynamic lines also help guide feeling of my artwork. I use metals, fibers, and glass mediums to invoke a sense of belonging with nature.

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             Pieces like Necklace of Earth, Maker’s Hands, and Woman’s Womb are only distinctive as the principalities appreciated within them. Woman’s Womb, was a hand built ceramic dome slipped in green glaze. The inside was layered in fleshy red. In the center was a coil braided form connecting the base to the ceiling. It was created through intuitive forming without the intention of representing a womb; yet, a colleague mentioned its likeness and so it was.

           Maker’s Hands carries a vibrant undertone. A beaded bracelet in its ordinary essence, thoughtfully designed to hold practical use. As the name suggests, Maker’s Hands is intended to bring joy to who wears it, refracted light at varying angles balances the generally charcoal black composition. In ways, its likeness is healing.

            Necklace of Earth is just as elusive, capturing the restorative relationship between earth and spirit. These elements were the main concepts of the design. Its implications were to honor where we stand in our world. Elements of three were repeated; three bezel-set stones: lapis lazuli for water, jade for earth, and black onyx for self. Three metals used were brass, copper, and silver. All resources and applications of the form were intentional in creating the pendant/ ring, linked by 81 soldered cooper chains, to be unique.

            There is an extraordinary relationship between human-kind and the natural world. My work aims to bring a sense of humor to the disappointing state of our world, through abstract impressions that challenge perspectives of dynamic polarity shifts, to a serene harmonic balance.  Miniature elements used in my pieces; those of weaving techniques, subtle placements, and fibers are meant to play a role in symbolizing a widely perceived irrelevance. As an artist, I take responsibility to beckon the viewer to look closer at my work, to stir an even deeper awareness of multi-realities that intertwine within patterns that can be seen with trained eyes. My goals as an artist are not reserved to conceptually-based inspiration nor material collection. I aim to share pieces that serve a collective attitude towards being conscious of the world we live in, and inspire our upcoming generations.

            A creature as tiny as a bee can be scary; yet gentle in retrospect. That tiny bee may be annoying to one but a gift to another. What may go unnoticed by the unobserved, is a crucial role bees plays in fertilizing plants for bloom. There is importance in even a tiny insect to the niche of pollination that could turn into food for you and me. This example is not isolated; however, ranging as extended from what our eyes can see. It’s within a space of observation, that opinion has a chance to evolve.