Rings

With measures of both humor and joy, I am creating jewelry that raises compelling questions related to value and scarcity and the effects of mass consumption. In combination with diamonds and gold I am mounting nurdles as if they are precious gems and stones. The rings can be worn as jewelry, making an important and timely statement about plastic pollution. Or they can be displayed as a precious artifact, a relic of contemporary consumer culture.

How to mitigate the bad news about the state of the oceans?  By making plastic pollution fun and fashionable, the depths can be mined with a smile.

Nurdles (pre-production plastic pellets) replace the diamonds in these two gold wedding rings along with a scatter of nurdles presented like rare jewels. Lest we forget: Like diamonds, plastic is forever.​​

Here is the Sea at the Richmond Art Center (2019) 

In the Spring of 2020, it was a thrill to present my wedding ensemble in Castaway: Art from the Material World  at the Bateman Foundation Center in Victoria BC. Along with my Forever wedding dress, shawl, and bouquet, No Room for Sand, a photo of nurdles enlarged, and my wedding rings graced one wall.

When Richard and I wed in 2004, I said that I wanted my marriage to last (at least!) as long as plastic. And, so far, so good.