New AD IDEM Rings: Installment #1

Lately in the studio I've been focusing on these one-of-a-kind AD IDEM rings, which incorporate the hand worked scrap of Norm Sartorius, who sends me boxes of same from time to time.

These rings rely on the idea of Norm's mark-making, of connecting our practices and honoring the material and the hand that makes the marks. 

Joan Didion said something surprisingly relevant:

"Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing."

We are all makers, together, negotiating the physical world with the grandness of the abstract in tow...

FRESH WORK: Hickory, Shed Antler & Silver Brooch

Getting back into the studio has been exhilarating. I've been working on some one-of-a-kind pieces for galleries, and some new rings for the upcoming American Craft Exposition show, which is open to the public August 22 to 24.

This brooch is rich and bleak, a Cormac Mccarthy of a brooch, warm wood colliding with the memory of a great beast, set in a brushed silver and sculptural as all get out.

More new work will be posted in the coming week! If you're interested in your own one-of-a-kind piece, visit the shop, or contact me.