Boxes are magical-- a place to house many bits of things. My latest frames are wide enough for imagery and painting, but with a wonderful space to house dimensional imagery.
Right and below are two pieces from my June 2006 show at Vesuvius Gallery (click here for more images).
"Urban Relics" — an on-going jewelry series using found metal and other objects to create precious objects from what might have be called "trash." Top pin uses a crushed screw-top bottle cap inset with glow-in-the-dark polmer clay; hoops around the edge are beaten metal wire. House pin on the right has a recycled copper roof, with beaten copper wire spirals and a bone bead stitched on with thinner copper wire; its inset imitative ivory piece has a transfer of the Japanese characters for "Wabi Sabi," a concept that finds beauty in the aged, the decayed, and the imperfect. Pins on the left and bottom use pieces of burned tin and transfer images, exploring hinge mechanisms.
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