Wearable ritual art sits somewhere between adornment and object. It is made to live on the body, but I am not interested in making ordinary jewelry and simply attaching a spiritual meaning to it afterward. Most of these pieces begin with the materials themselves: bone, fossil, stone, copper, leather, glass, fur, teeth, found objects, and things that already carry age, texture, history, or some quality that makes me want to work with them.

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I rarely begin with a finished design in my head. I usually begin with one piece that catches my attention, then build outward from it. Copper may be wrapped, hammered, aged, or allowed to remain rough. Leather might become part of the structure rather than simply a cord holding everything together. Bone, stone, fossils, and other natural materials are left recognizable because I want them to remain themselves. The result is often irregular, sometimes strange, and almost always impossible to reproduce exactly.

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Some pieces are made with a particular idea in mind: protection, ancestry, endurance, remembrance, transition, personal power, or simply the desire to carry something meaningful close to the body. Others do not reveal what they are becoming until I am already well into making them. When there is a particular story, material history, or intention behind a piece, I will tell you what it was. I do not expect that meaning to remain fixed once the piece belongs to someone else.

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You may wear one as a talisman, incorporate it into ritual or devotional work, carry it because of the materials it contains, or simply wear it because something about it feels like yours. There is no requirement that you use it the way I would. I make the object and tell you where it began. What it becomes through being worn, carried, and lived with belongs to you.