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Also known as Motor Agate or Detroit Agate, Fordite is made from layer upon layer of car paint.   Starting in the 1920’s, overspray from painting cars would build up in the paint bays.   The “slag” (enamel paint) was then hardened during the curing process.  Some of the individual layers were baked 100 times. The first slag was collected from The Ford Motor Company in Michigan thus the name Fordite.  It has also been created from other cars such as Corvette (Corvetteite) and Cadillac (Cadillac Ranch). In the 1940’s, factory workers began salvaging the clumps of paint.  It takes...

  Marianne entered my life while traveling in Europe in the ’80’s.  Old letters and postcards from that time were sent home with stamps that featured the face of Catherine Deneuve as Marianne, the spirit of the revolution.  Little did I know that she would become my muse many years later when I needed my own revolution.   The power of a female icon known as the Goddess of Liberty dates back to 1775.  A feminine allegory was a manner to symbolize the breaking with the male dominated monarchy.  She expresses her motto with the words liberty, equality and fraternity....

If you stand still long enough I will throw a piece of jewelry on you and take your picture for my website! In the meantime, I hog-tie my family and force them to be my models.  Nobody in my family likes to have their pics taken. So, when you see them on the website just know it takes 45 pics to get one that works because they like to show how they really feel when being phototgraphed.  

Why did I save this 1990's ad?  Because for so many years I needed to remind myself that I am more than my size.  I am more than numbers...the numbers on a scale...the number on the tag of my jeans...how many more inches my hair needs to grow... Seeking approval and making myself small. And statistics.  They do lie.  You can make a statistic lean any way you want to suit your purpose.  That I have known for a long, long time. In many ways, those days are behind me but there will always be a struggle in some way...

In September, 2019 my sister had a dirt bike accident and suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury.  She recently asked me to make a totem for the Dr. that was instrumental in her healing.  It took a whole team but he was the she believes recognized her needs the most.  Every “bit” in the totem has meaning.        She fell   her brain broke. She died   and found peace.   The love of her life breathed his heart into her   And strangers prayed on the mountain top.     In that grey area between life and death...