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Out of Context

1994-2000

My earliest studio jewelry was made primarily of sterling silver and book pages. I named this series of work Out of Context because in the early 2000s there was a lot of concern that books would cease to exist because of the emergence of computer technologies, word processing and the coming life of the world wide web. As a lover of books as objects and as knowledge I began to cut into books first with a bandsaw then with a specialized circle punch. I continued to work with this material after graduate school until I began to see copycat work in the market place. I decided to move on from this work in 2000