As a maker of wearable objects, I am always aware of the powerful ability of communication that jewelry holds. Formally, I am interested in the ways in which repetition, production, and content are able to coalesce.

 

In this body of work, I use the format of enameled brooches to mimic and transform the image of magnet poems, one of my favorite playthings as a child. Using my own poems as a guide, I asked myself, what would it mean to make these objects precious? What would it mean to make them wearable?

 

With every poem, each word is made into an individual enameled steel brooch, pinned with a magnet. The poem can be read as a whole, but only briefly, before it is broken up as the individual words are inevitably scattered about through the act of wearing. In these pieces, I use production work as a performative strategy - with the intention of showing that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. My goal is to make work that can be consumed and interacted with, as well as to create something visually communicative and playful. I believe this combination of intimacy and play is what permeates both the act of wearing jewelry and written language.