The view of an architecture student while making jewelry is an important thing to have. I see items of many shapes and sizes at a variety of scales and how they can be transformed into something that ordinary people do not always see.

I enjoy creating beauty from everyday objects. You might see something and only see this mundane in it, but I see something more powerful. I enjoy every time that I make a piece that turns out to be unrecognizable to then hear those around me wonder, not if I made it, but what unusual thing it is. And then the joy that is felt when they as well see the beauty that is in the object that they have seen many times before but never cared to really see it.

Most of my items are either found as I go about my day either on the ground or in the garbage. Some are from items I have had that have become obsolete. However, the main jewelry findings, such as the claps, earrings studs, and most of the chains, are either bought from a trusted findings dealer, or made myself. I am always trying to find ways to make the jewelry out of more sustainable products than they already are.

I am also helping to clean up the planet, by picking up the litter others leave behind, and instead of adding to the mass of garbage thrown out every day I am making it new again