I am curious about the new landscape that is created by human intervention in the natural process. I am concerned that we misjudge our power to tame nature and overestimate the durability of the constructions we build. Humans often attempt to maintain control by covering or containing natural elements within squares and rectangles. We try to manage nature with 90-degree angles, straight lines and linear patterns, that juxtapose the organic shapes.
My influences are architectural: cities built into extreme terrains, landscape architecture, farms, gardens, vineyards, parks, trees planted in the sidewalk, landfills, pools, docks and bridges -- any attempt by humans to surmount nature. My concern comes from wondering how and when our constructions will fall, or when the order we have tried to maintain will be overrun by a stronger force.
My jewelry pieces are rigid and geometric, made of stainless steel, aluminum and bronze. My pieces have a precarious relationship with the human body, the same way that human constructions can have a precarious relationship with nature. Sometimes off-scale, they can be uncomfortable or extreme. A rubber cord binds them to the body. The pieces represent the landscape created by an awkward relationship; an assumption of control and a lack of harmony.