how does that connect with wood sculpture?
Both wood and jewelry involve sculpture. If it’s big and stands as art in your home, it can be crafted out of wood. If you want something smaller, it can be a jewelry sculpture you wear. You call yourself a “What If” artist, what does that mean? When I consider a project – whether it’s a new jewelry design or a piece of furniture – I ask myself, “What if?” It’s an open-ended question that promotes creativity by getting rid of any pre-conceived rules. Talk about your jewelry designs, they’re an interesting study in curves, aren’t they? Exactly. My work was inspired by North Carolina metalsmith who uses a revolutionary new technique to create her jewelry. Lacking the formal education but wanting to design jewelry, I spent months at her studio learning this unique metal sculpting technique called “Raising Synclastic”. Raising Synclastic? For those of us in not in the jewelry design world, this means? We’re back to curves again. Synclastic is the process of making curves in metal in one or
