About

During the course of my career I traveled across the US dozens of times and always enjoyed looking out the window of the airplane to view the geologic and topographic characteristics of the terrain below: The Rockies, the Sierra Nevada range, the Grand Canyon, the plains and lakes and bays always struck me as fascinating – seeing the glacially-carved lakes, mesas and plateaus, lava-formed mountains and canyons shaped by rivers from 30,000+ feet was always a highlight of my travels. 

Eventually I came to the realization that I could combine the silversmithing my grandmother taught me with my interest in geology and topography to create wearable art by using topographic data and creating accurate models of the places I visited and/or saw out the airplane windows.   What better way to remember those lakes formed by glaciers, those canyons carved by rivers and those mountains formed by volcanic eruptions to remind me of those stunning places. 

I crunch the topographic data and create the jewelry in my 233-year-old farm house in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.