I think of jewelry as sculpture for the body that taps into my love of the traditional adornments of Africa and Eurasia. I want to create dynamic, contemporary forms that feel uniquely powerful and inspiring to the individual wearer. My completed pieces create an alchemy of pattern, texture, and fragments of memory that call to mind the transformation of nature over time. Intricate groups of repeated elements that shift in size create an overall organic composition, while detailed textures reward closer inspection. These repeated forms build up to a larger scale and a more dramatic impact to establish an urban, contemporary edge.