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My jewelry is collage of texture, color, and shape, using primarily silk, porcelain, beads, and metal. When I look at a finished piece of jewelry, I see many things from my life as far back as my childhood; the glitter of color in a raindrop on the car window as the car moves through town, the frayed edge of the hem of my dress, the beautiful greens in spring fields against the brown soil, the backside of my sister’s embroidery, the subtle images in painted china dishes used at Thanksgiving, the blues and yellows in glistening icicles, the shadow pattern of a broken window on the wall of my bedroom, my many gardens, the sun shining on the stones at the bottom of a stream. What beauty there is around us.