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bells chime softly
I tell people
that I'm an interactive,
kinetic sculptor,
it's kind of left right there
just don't get it,
don't know what
that's all about.
jewelry designer and an artist.
of my work
it's been found,
and I think
that's intentional,
of it's just made.
I went to school,
I have a fine arts degree,
as a printmaker,
into making jewelry,
and I kind of considered that
that would be my profession,
was a jewelry designer.
soft whirring
that I work on making jewelry.
a traditional jeweler's bench,
and it all happens right here.
cutting and filing right here.
This is where I sit and stare
at things for hours upon hours
thinking about how to connect
and make them look nice.
I'm working on right now.
found walking down the street.
I'm notorious for walking around
with my nose on the ground
rusty metal and old washers
and things like that.
You let it out that you use
found objects in artwork
giving you stuff.
My father-in-law
goes to estate sales
and finds all kinds of stuff
and gives it to us.
These were a set of silver--
they look like forks to me!
He found these at an estate
sale, and I've been
and random pieces of jewelry.
So all of these components here
are from the handle of the fork.
I've been on a kick lately
with sprinkler heads,
like industrial sprinkler heads.
kind of flower head
that disperses the water.
things from a local company
to use on a piece of artwork,
and I've started using
these now in jewelry.
This is a brand new
piece right now,
and it's not done yet.
pieces of angle iron.
Anytime it cuts the angle iron,
it cuts this section out,
and it folds these things over
2nd grader birds.
I thought well,
I've got to be able
to make those things
do something.
what I'm going to do.
I don't think that way.
and making things,
that happens behind that.
then figure out how you can
make it move, or figure out
how to make it do something,
or make something else move.
I collect things,
that have age to them.
that kind of feeling.
I think time and history are
an important part
of the work that I make.
Slowing down time is kind of
the thing that I go for.
None of the work moves fast.
Everything has got a real
slow, methodical feel to it.
It's a way of slowing people
down to take time
and make them look at it,
something and hitting it
and walking to the
next piece and hitting it,
you know, just quick shots.
You really have to sit
and look at these things
to make them speak.
and we have 2 kids,
and we travel as a little pod
during the summer.
that you see in nature,
the repetition in nature,
when you're out on a lake
or in an ocean or someplace,
surrounded by it,
and you're so in tune to it.
guitar & recorder play softly
to navigate when they migrate,
Mechanical Migration:
and the sprinkler heads
kind of represent
stars and constellations.
of those things
that I'm also influenced by.
You use navigation
on sailboats.
So it's always been one of those
things that I've drawn upon.
you can harness those forces
and move someplace,
or get from point A to point B.
our family on this journey.
my biggest inspiration.