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Change, Sand dollar, powdered graphite, gesso, 3 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 1/4 in., 2020

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Respite, Brooch, Sterling silver, steel, 3 x 5 x 1/4 inch, 2020 I recently made a piece of jewelry for an exhibition at ATTA Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand. The show celebrates the 10th anniversary of the gallery and includes 52 artists from around the world. It opens tomorrow and runs through October 24. I worked with ATTA when I was making jewelry full time some years ago and was truly honored to be invited to participate now. This is the first piece of jewelry (other than a few wedding rings) that I have made in a very, very long time and it was wonderful to return to the bench. The tools and materials were so familiar to me. It was a comforting process amidst the challenges of the times and I’m grateful to Atty for the special opportunity to revisit jewelry and metalsmithing. And, heartfelt congratulations to her for 10 years of good work in our field!

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Is it? Are we? I don’t think so… I found this mask during a twilight walk in a nearby nature reserve. Thanks to everyone who has sent me a picture of a mask over the past week. Masks I’ve gotten so far include one tucked under a gutter, another outside the door of a hotel room, and several on beaches. There are many single-use ones, a camouflage one, and one with cute foxes. We now have 18 states represented and three other countries. And it’s been great to connect with all of you through this project! Let’s keep going… Please send your masks pictures to me at my email [email protected]. Be sure your location services are turned on (find this in your phone’s settings) and be sure to connect to WiFi/LTE/5G to get your photo tagged with the GPS coordinates. If you don’t want to turn on location services, no problem... please send the approximate location of the mask or the address when you email me your image. And send more than one! I know you’ll see lots, unfortunately. I will email confirmation to each of you once your mask is on the map. Please let me know if you have questions and feel free to share. This is definitely a project in which “more is better.”

You can see the map here.

Thank you!

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Five.

More thinking through making... in eleven parts.

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American Values, Photographs and Google Map, 2020. Let’s make something thoughtful, together… I started seeing masks on the side of the road back in April and began taking pictures of them. Then recently I started plotting them on a Google Map. These “lost” masks have become a symbol of what I see as American values, or lack of values. We are a culture that has the expectation that it can have anything it wants whenever it wants and that most everything is replaceable. We are constantly preoccupied with the next best thing and what’s best for us as individuals, instead of what’s best for the group. We are careless and thoughtless and lack basic compassion. Yes, I am discouraged, to say the very least. So let’s make something thoughtful together. I invite you to send me photos of the lost masks you spot wherever you live in the US. You can send yours to my email - [email protected]. Please be sure your phone is connected to WiFi/LTE/5G when you take the picture so that your image has GPS coordinates attached to it. I will add your images to the map as I receive them. I will not list any names and I will be collecting images indefinitely. Here’s a link to the map. I hope you will visit and visit often. Thank you in advance.

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