Masks

Music Video with my Jewelry!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9GQQ8loyzg

Summer necklace

Earrings and Tail

Body parts

Paintings oil on wood 1998

oils on wood

The Fig sign

Fig Sign
The "fig sign" is a gesture where the hand is in a fist with the thumb poking out between the index and middle fingers. It's either a wonderful good luck charm or the worst insult you could ever give someone, depending on where you happen to be at the time.

In ancient Rome, an image of a hand in the fig sign (mano fico) was worn as an amulet to protect against the evil eye. It was affiliated with female genital reproductive powers, as the Italian word for the female vulva, fica, means fig. In modern Portugal and Brazil, many people still wear fig sign trinkets as jewelry. The fig sign's repulsive power could also account for its use as an obscene gesture. In places like Indonesia, China, Russia, and some Mediterranean regions (particularly Turkey), the sign can have an insulting meaning roughly equivalent to "screw you." Before you think you would never make such a gesture, one wonders what the locals think when visiting American parents play the "I stole your nose" game

 with their children.

Working with wood....

Yes my friends...with these instruments...I will attempt to dismemberrr...uhh...I mean attempt to create my new line of jewelry 

Back from Amsterdam....Inspired

Silver experimentation

It has been a long time since I have worked with silver, and I forgot how much work it is...so after quite a few frustrating attempts at making a bezel and sawing my croc, I was quite satisfied with the result, albeit unfinished!

Croc on the workbench

A lot of polishing still to do

I think I like it!