Out of Context

1994-2000

My earliest studio jewelry began as my thesis work at Cranbrook Academy. This work was widely published and helped to launch my early career. These are 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 with 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. One of the neckpieces below is a part of the collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. While I did this work over a span of about five years the entire collection is relatively small. I will be adding to this image gallery as I digitize these images. Here is a small sampling below.