Hiatus

I’m on vacation through Tuesday, August 5.

Jewelry and its relationship to the body

work in progress: scarab bead neckpiece

Quick note because I have to dash. I am working on a new neckpiece. A series of scarab beads made of paper and plastic. The overall design is made cohesive by the color teal. As I’m working with the beads on the mannequin, the neckpiece feels like an object, but when I try the neckpiece on, it transforms into this thing that a priestess might have worn in the old days. I think I finally understand what jewelry historians mean when they speak of jewelry and its relationship to the body…

Random Thoughts On: Art, Craft, and Reality

Craft is about making things by hand. Fine craft is concerned with making objects of beauty of the highest caliber of construction. Fine art is about expressing the inexpressible. Visual art is about manifesting the poetics of the inexpressible into the realm of sight and consciousness. Interdisciplinary art is concerned with conversations between schools of thought and creating new pathways of understanding by connecting isolated realities.

I am an interdisciplinary artist. My work is situated between the realm of craft and art.