Stamped Turquoise Ring
Wear blue after summer solstice and hold onto the sunny skies and glossy blue glacial ice as long as possible. This stamp-textured ring is set with a Hubei turquoise.
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The Terrain Series
The Terrain Series draws inspiration from the winter landscape. During winter, snow softens the contours of the ground and seems to reshape them as wind drifts and strips the snow across the land throughout the season. These pieces started out…
Winter Texture Ring
A ring inspired by the textures of winter and by the delicate play of light and shadow on snow. The tourmaline rutile inside quartz looks like those long needles of ice that sometimes grow. The band and bezel of the…
Winter Texture Silver Statement Ring
This icy blue bevel-set chalcedony sits on a wide, textured sterling silver band. The electric blue color glows inside the stone in certain light. I was inspired by the snowy textures of the Alaskan winter, and the cool blues of…
The Magpie
One fall afternoon, while driving home, a magpie (pica hudsonia) flew across Chena Hot Springs Rd in front of me. A momentary glimpse of blue black with a flash of white, then I blinked and we continued on our separate…
Southwest-style Jade Ring
This isn’t a style I normally work in. The silver vibe in the American Southwest is really different from what Alaska feels like. The imagery and symbolism aren’t the same. These are obvious statements, seeing as how these are two…
Oxbow
26″ x 27″ x 15″ Textures in cast iron inspired by the texture of the landscape created by the hydrology in Interior Alaska, as seen from the elevation of an airplane. I an captivated by the texture of the land…
Myopia
Scrap steel, cast bronze, brass wire, reclaimed glass lens12″ x 12″ x 12″ This fanciful navigation device, fabricated loosely after an armillary sphere, is a representation of our own internal universe. At the center of an armillary sphere is the…
Plumb
5.5″ x 11.75″ x 6.5″Copper electroformed bronze screen, cast bronze, chain A straight and plumb structure is the key to order. So many houses and buildings in Interior Alaska start out straight, level and plumb, but over time they succumb…
Baba Yaga’s House
3.5″ x 5″Cast glass, bronze, brass Still wrapped up in walking house imagery. Took a break to focus on more whimsical folk stories, like Baba Yaga and her house in the forest with chicken feet.