Preparation for a show

Lots has happened. I have been M.I.A. for the past month or so and just trying to explore this new situation that I have created for myself. Creativity has been flowing and then it grinded to a halt I think fear managed to creep in.

I think I'm back in my mode, and am working on preparing pieces for an upcoming group show at the Taboo Gallery in San Diego, California.

Just picked up a copy of Lucky Magazine with a piece published there. I am very happy to see things slowly taking an interesting course. I like the duality, the fashion foward and fashion right of my pieces, and I like the marriage to the craft world that I come from as a trained metalsmith. I would like to keep my feet in both worlds as this work progresses.

I am working still with my lines and am pursuing two things. One is this idea of the line and patience exploration. The other side a subconscious layer, the idea of change, personal experience through abstraction of my jewelry art. I am interested in beautiful forms that have movement and are appealing, but when I look at them I think about the place that I am in mentally and how that reflects through each and every piece.

This is "Grass is always greener...." and it's two rows of multiple wires that are hammered on the ends and dipped and oxidized.

I look at it and I see this vibrant time for myself and I see the parallel how we always think that the particular situation we are in is never as good as it can be. I am trying to be very present and allow myself to explore and enjoy this creative time and space that I have finally allowed myself to experience.

The second piece in work is called "Change", the two worlds that I am working on personally, the idea that we have this 3D world we live in and then we just have us. Or I have I am. And it's a tempestuous sea at the moment, it's murky and unclear, but I am trying to guide myself through it and come out with less weight on the other side. It's hard work, but I like that I can explore it visually and three-dimensionally as well as mentally.