Two cats in the yard.

I've been thinking a lot about the ways in which the structures we live in influence our lives. This past semester was all about creating a body of work - sort of a senior project - and so I made pieces inspired by my memories of houses I lived in as a child.

I started off fabricating small boxes out of metal. Each one is based on a house from my childhood. They're also inspired by the spice boxes used for havdalah, which are traditionally shaped like houses, castles, or windmills. Instead of putting in the usual spices (cloves and cinnamon), I mixed various smells together so each house box smells like my memory of the house it's based on.

Each of these is about 2 1/2 inches tall.

I spent a lot of time playing around with surface treatment

(etching, solder inlay, enamel paint, chasing, oxidation)

and mechanisms (hinges, tension fittings, clasps, and some

sort of sliding technique that has no name that I know of).

Here are the four of them displayed for my final critique.

The feeling of being in motion again.

It's weird that I went this whole semester without saying a peep on here.

Here's a glimpse of what I've been doing:

I do miss making things to wear,

so here are some random images of jewelry that I love, just for fun...