Sunday Mo(u)rning: Part 1

My artwork derives from childhood memories and experiences. Growing up I lived in Honolulu, Hawaii surrounded by a wide diversity of people and environments from the island and off. While living on a military base and being near my family, I experienced both worlds, traditional with my family's background and nontraditional being a military kid living on a base. As I am digesting who I am, the intricacies of these worlds from my past are overlapping with my present.

I explore narrative and memory through metal materials in the form of jewelry. Permanence, weight, and aging are qualities of metal that parallel my developing interpretations of personal experiences over time. Through the labor and repetition when producing these pieces, I am replicating the act of gift giving. Labor and repetition are processes that correlate to the reflection, time, and thoughtfulness of gift giving. This is a recurring gesture in which I am attempting to recreate the joy and excitement that is now instinctive to me through my upbringing.