The first thing I ever cast was orange and grapefruit seeds for the floor of my installation in Milan, then I cast the apple seed ring, and I started thinking about rings as small pieces of wearable art. I wanted to make rings with content, pieces that would be intimate and symbolic to the wearer, which was something I didn't see in the world around me. I hope you enjoy them.
Prices: All rings are $60 each, earrings are $75. All of the prices are for the pieces in silver, the price for gold plated would be more, and the price for solid gold would be related to the market price of the gold.
Also a disclaimer: All of the pieces have a handmade quality, and some of them are not completely round, so some of the sizes are an educated guess.
Alter
109 Franklin Street
Brooklyn, NY
718-784-8818
Mew Gallery
906 Christian Street
Philadelphia, PA
215-625-2424
Paxton's Gate
824 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA
415-824-1872
and coming soon to
Highland Gifts for Men
1002 Virginia Ave NE
Atlanta, GA
404-817-0470
Ring height: 1 cm, measured at widest point. Available in size 6, 8 ½
This is the first ring I made--I stitched apple seeds together and cast them--I was thinking about having a child and wanted to meditate on seeds and fertility of all kinds-- but people see different things in it--flames, teeth, tears, a crown--


Ring height: 1.2cm. Available in size 9
The top of this ring shows the sun and stars in the sky, if your fingers represent the atmosphere, then the stars become shooting stars as they pass through the atmosphere, and they become meteors as they land on earth, all of those states are present in this ring--
Ring height: 1.7cm. Available in sizes 5, 7 ½, 9, 11
This is one of my favorites--birds and flying have always been a metaphor for freedom for me--I feel a lot of tension living in a body that has limitations and yet has a mind that is free to dream--
Ring height: 1.7cm. Available in size 8
This bone was the perfect size and shape to fit around my finger for a ring--
Ring height: 1.2cm. Available in sizes 7 ½, 8 ½
I did a show years ago called Bouyancy, which was about floating and spheres, the macrocosm of the universe and the microcosm of the cell, and I wanted to celebrate all the ideas from that show with a ring of bubbles--
Ring height: .9cm. Available in size 6 ½
This is made from two coccyx bones, and it is to celebrate sex, when 2 coccyxs come together, and the life they create--
Ring height: .6cm. Available in size 7, 8
I made this one to think about what it means to be a couple and yet remain individuals--one comes from one place, one comes from another, and they lie down together--
Ring height: 1.2cm. Available in size 7
This is the cast hand of a mole or something, it didn't burn out properly, so it's a little vague--
Ring height: 1.2cm. Available in size 5, 7 ½, house and cloud size 9
When I was evicted from my loft, I would close my eyes at night and draw pictures of little houses, and when I opened my eyes, the drawings were always surprising (you can see them here). It was as if they were tiny prayers for a home. This ring is an homage to that time--
Ring height: 1.6cm. Available in sizes 6 ½, 9
This ring spells out the sentence "I see I before I see you," or, "I learn to take care of myself before I take care of everyone else"--Just a healthy reminder--
Ring height: 1.1cm. Available in size 7
I think a lot about outer space--I found this piece of leather that a shoemaker was using and recognized that it would look like the surface of the moon when cast--

Ring height: .4cm. Available in size 7
This is a tiny snake spine curled in a circle, as if it's eating it's tail, which is an ancient symbol for infinity--

Ring height: 1.5cm. Available in size 7 ½ This ring is about the path of your life, but with no ending point, and along the path is an X making the spot for buried treasure and encouraging you to get in there and dig--
Ring height: .9cm. Available in size 6 ½
I made this ring to remind me of the rock walls in England, where my I was born, or in Connecticut, where I went to college, but it also looks like a crown--

Ring height: .3cm. Available in size 6
This ring has been used as a wedding band, and has a very good handmade irregular feeling to the touch--
Ring height: 1cm. Available in size 8 ½
I like casting natural forms into metal, I found this kind of iconic twig and cast it pressed against wax--

Ring height: 1.5cm. Available in size 7
I have a rock on my altar that I found out at Shiprock, it has a hole in it and is a reminder to me to go deeper into things, so this ring is about that, it also looks like a mouth--
Ring height: 1.4cm. Available in sizes 6 or 7 (depends on how much I file it out) and 10
This ring is about actual working mechanical parts--it's kind of a reaction to the digital age and the abstraction of zeros and ones--


