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Constructed

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MUSIBATTY

What most inspires me about Mexico City is the architecture. When I walk the streets I feel as if I travel through time, as houses from multiple eras line each block. There are hardly any building codes to limit style, so the colors, textures, heights and shapes are endless. 

Some constructions are finished, but others forever await the extra income needed to complete them. I find that this eclectic work-in-progress is the perfect expression of life itself, and as an artist I could not imagine a more stimulating landscape.

Constructed Totem. 
Handmade with carnelian and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Available in my online shop.

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Origami Totem

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I recently had the pleasure to read the interview Elizabeth Gilbert gave Tom Waits for GQ Magazine. 

In my favorite part, Tom Waits talks about how his children have enriched his creative process, and recalls a time when his daughter helped him write a song. 

"We were on a bus coming to L.A. and it was really cold outside. There was this transgender person –to be politically correct– standing on a corner wearing a short little top with a lot of midriff showing, a lot of heavy eye makeup and dyed hair, and a really short skirt. And this guy, or girl, was dancing all by himself. And my little girl saw it and said, "It must be really hard to dance like that when you're so cold and there's no music."

Origami Totem.
Handmade with labradorite and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Spyglass

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“Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

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— Tim Burton

Spyglass Totem.
Handmade with kyanite and 100% recycled sterling silver.
Available in my online shop.

Previous Blog Posts

I built my first blogging website in December, 2013. For the next few years, I wrote several blog posts each week, sharing my work and vision as it developed, through my travels, creative challenges and lessons learned.

These posts have accumulated into years of ideas, far too many to import into the website you are viewing now. If you would like to read them, please click on the link below. 
 

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