My research centers around the symbolic and emotive resonance of jewelry and potent materials and how they participate in culture. I am interested in how objects and materials have functioned historically as a marker of status, class wealth, and a record of human experience. The objective of my work is to increase the depth and breadth of the critical dialogue concerning objects and how they participate in culture, particularly through the use of mass production techniques, materiality and seduction. Shifting scale, moving from image to object to material conditions, my work dramatically changes directions prompted by life events.