Forget all the wax carving and CAD, that stuff isn't going to last. It's not built by hands, it's cast by machines. It won't get passed down because it won't last the distance. Metal holds memory. Every strike, every pass of the file, how it resists under heat. You learn what it can withstand. Cast metal you never work. You don't know it. All you see is surface.

Diebenkorn painted what he remembered - light through a window, objects in his studio. Brancusi worked metal with music heard throughout his studio. Process is everything, it can't be skipped. It's where the magic happens. It takes time and that time builds structure, it creates meaning and memories, and sets an object up to exist in history, to outlive the wearer and persist through new generations.

Jewelry for the ones that get it. Who aren't caught up in the trends. Who know what handmade means. For the ones that want to feel something. Feel the weight of an object and understand those sensations.

Pastel and Charcoal Study of a Painting by Nicolas Flamel (c.1330-1418), depicting Alchemist’s Equipment, believed to be from a manuscript often referred to as “The Book of the Hieroglyphic Figures” and housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France.