KKWearableSculpture

When I was young, I didn't think about making art or anything like that, I just made things. It wasn't until university that I focused on art as something to do, but my feeling was that my discipline hadn't been invented, which was partially true. It was much later, during an online photo scanning class that I had my epiphany. I decided to finish a photo scan of a tree as a small object just to see what it looked like. When I got the piece back and held it in my hand, I knew I would design small objects on a computer and make them in metal. This was a total surprise. I went to school in illustration, painting, photography, and film and came to jewelry accidentally through computers. I'm self-taught in both, although I've taken metal and lapidary classes. My work begins with a question, an intuition or a gemstone. Almost all my designing is done on a computer. I print lots of variations to see what they look like. The flexibility of silver and the computer give me the ability to do just about anything I can think of. I make my pieces one at a time and touch every part of them, both on the computer and when I finish in metal. I even occasionally cut my gemstones. My work is personal and eclectic. They're finished when they say something and are either one of a kind or few of a kind.