Timeless designs, based on simple geometry, the elements, and symbols which have held meaning for millennia, the fire features in this collection will never go out of fashion and will complement nearly any style of landscape.
Drawing equally from the natural sciences and the spirit, Hudson Valley Fire Pit designs embody erudition and enlightenment. Share stories and tell tales around the poetic forms of these classic sculptural fire pit designs.
My jewelry is an exploration of sculpture for the body, a means of inhabiting art and bringing it to life through your own movement and style. The shapes I use are influenced by patterns in nature, Kuba cloth, Mid Century Modern fabric prints, and the work of Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi and Wifredo Lam. The structure of joined pieces are inspired by the non-repeating patterns of Kuba cloth from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
I love finding the beauty in non-precious materials. All of my jewelry is made from aluminum reclaimed from decommissioned street signs and electrical cable. Glass beads are fair trade sourced and are individually handmade from recycled glass in Ghana. Amber resin beads are fair trade and made by hand in Kenya. Bamboo coral is vintage stock. Meteorite fragments are from the Campo del Cielo meteorite.
I plan to focus almost exclusively on making mosaics when I move, so all the work from my past life is on sale!
I have 14 tons of glass tile I’m taking with me… I think I can let go of the older work.
I have saved select work from every phase of my life as an artist, on the off chance that someday there would be a retrospective. The earliest piece I have is from age 4! As I prepare for a new life on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m letting most of it go. It’s not been an easy decision, but I won’t have room to house it on the other side nor do I want to put it in storage forever. I need it to find a good new home.
More importantly, while I still think the work holds up well and still love it, I have changed so much post-transition that the old work just isn’t who I am anymore. It most certainly is who I was. But with this move I want to make a clean break and start entirely from scratch to find out what kind of work I make now. I know that it will be lighter, more joyful, possibly more political as well. I need a clean slate on which to draw my future.
