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 – I could use topographic data to create 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. 

I love hearing people’s stories about places that are important to them – if there is a place special to you that you don’t see represented here, please reach out me – I would love to discuss turning that location into meaningful jewelry.

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