Juicy Fruits
Juicy Fruits explores jewelry’s role as signifier, and a means throughout history for communicating availability, fertility, and fecundity, through the representation of a variety of foods considered to be aphrodisiacs. The work is constructed from meticulously handsawn steel lace, formed and welded to create pieces that simultaneously read as solid, while also open and airy. The lush lace patterning traverses the entirety of surfaces, sometimes obscuring the truth of the form. In these heavily decorated objects the viewer finds a connection between nourishment and sensual arousal.