2005-Present

Front and back, back and front, heads or tails, faces and edges.

My aunt gave me the whole musty lot saying, “make something!”

A Photo Essay

Hands and a few of the amazing things they are capable of.

Pearls are accreted. The process is one of host defense and the result is prized for its beauty.

“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.” – Maggie Nelson

I have navigated the waters of sentiment and studied the point when an object becomes a beloved object.

“Look at the spiral shape on your fingertips and then look at galaxies. There are no isolated patterns. The universe has some favorites and they repeat and they repeat at every scale.” – adrienne marie brown

I started working with graphite and raw diamonds in graduate school thinking about how they are relatives, genetic variations of one another, different iterations of carbon.