My Favorite Pieces
Here is a collection of my favorite pieces over the last 3 years. Each of these works were made with love, creativity and history imbued.
These pieces tell a story; incorporating legend, ecology, and the growth of my own character. This journey has in turn enhanced my passion to continue learning, experimenting, and fine-tuning my techniques.
This piece was an exploration inspired by symphonies and oil painting.
I wanted to create something more elegant and refined, based on the work Barber by Adagio for Strings 1. It is a classical string masterpiece with many textures, swallowed by beauty and sorrow. This piece embodies that feeling with a single dangling Japanese freshwater pearl, partially burnt, crushed silver beading, beaming rhodolite surrounded by zirconia, and one clear fiberglass bead. It is a journey in itself of romantic textures.
Materials:
Pearl braided choker
Sterling silver 92.5%
Rhodolite with Zirconia stones
Partially burnt Japanese freshwater pearl
Crushed silver beads
Fiberglass
Though I have the everlasting desire to elevate my skills…
I still want to maintain an organic, flowing style in my work. This design allows me to weave techniques, creating a harmonious sense of regality and freedom.
Materials:
Japanese freshwater pearls
Sterling Silver
Tanzanite
Peridot
Champagne Tourmaline
Blue Apatite
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This piece was inspired by a dream.
It was set in a frozen castle made completely of ice. Enamored by the idea, I brought my dream to life with a piece suitable for a ball at this frosty venue.
Materials:
Chinese pearl
Tanzanite
Green Quartz
Sterling Silver
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This piece represents the fragility and resilience of the human heart, as a symbol for centering oneself.
As an inspiration, I really loved the way the cushions made a dent while sitting down and wanted to embody that concept by creating soft dents for each sapphire stone. Adding textural details create a sense of honor to archeological patterns of the present world.
This piece has a level of softness and delicacy, anchored by textures that imply movement and strength.
Materials:
Sapphires
Chinese pearls
Blue topaz
Sterling Silver
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This design was inspired by a beautiful torn book I found in a local bookshop many years ago.
The drawing that brought me this concept is a hybrid of a Fish and a Tiger, representing the symbiosis of land and sea.
Materials:
Blue & Green Tourmaline
Orange Sapphire
White Topaz
Sterling Silver
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This piece was inspired by the bridge between beauty and grime.
Like yin yang, there is a cyclical energy to both concepts; you can find beauty in ugliness and vice versa. With this idea in mind, I purposely crushed silver to see what textures would arise. The delicate nature of the crushed pieces brought me to design a hollow heart, embodying a sense of sensitivity and the beauty of lived experience.
Materials:
Citrine
Sterling Silver
This bespoke gold piece was designed for a dear friend and his music label.
The 10 karat gold and variety of gemstones were chosen to create something fun and opulent to compliment his personality of levity, freedom, and style.
Materials:
Citrine
Tsavorite
Sapphires
Orange sapphire
Rubies
Emerald
Amethyst
Pink Sapphire
Peridot
10 Karat Gold
This piece was initially inspired by a gorgeous butterfly native to Japan.
Using its shape for the silhouette, I wanted to inject more attitude, deciding to incorporate the sharp features of a Chinese opera mask. I think this piece demonstrates my character somehow, embracing the duality of hard and soft, gentle and powerful.
Materials:
White Topaz
Tsavorite
Smokey quartz
Blue Topaz
Citrine
Sterling Silver
I sculpted this piece while I was studying industrial rendering in Shanghai several years ago.
At the time I was teaching myself how to sculpt with different dremels and tools and had come across a beautiful rose in the garden of my school. Inspired, I recreated it’s shape and form using new techniques to suggest fluidity, softness, structure, and movement.
Materials:
Hard green jeweller’s wax
This bespoke piece was designed as an engagement ring for a friend.
The inspiring force of the piece was to incorporate Scarabs, known to reproduce themselves. Scarabs are able to encapsulate their own spark and impregnate other scarabs, if they found the genetic material. This fact was so fascinating to me, as scarabs are the the longest living insects known to man. For this reason, they represent an everlasting love, life, and luck, perfect for blessing a marriage.
Materials:
Tanzanite
Ruby
White Diamonds
Mexico City has been my home for the past 6 years.
Though I myself am not catholic , I was fascinated by the presence of catholicism throughout the country. I was drawn to the countless figurines and sculptures in the many churches sprinkled across the city. There are extraordinary examples of this in the senores carving wax and wooden symbols outside cathedrals. It is an enormous display of faith and devotion, which I feel for my own craft and home. The bubble cross is a way for me to honor and participate in this practice based on respect.
In a desire to elevate my techniques, I decided to practice a more meticulous stone setting skill around the cross, which is quite tedious. It honors the time and patience it takes to devote oneself to a craft or spiritual practice.
Materials:
Blue Topaz
Garnet
VS1 Diamonds
Amethyst
Smokey Quartz
Sapphire
Sterling Silver
I love the romantic silhouette of flowing seaweed through the cracks of rocks and coral.
This ring was inspired by a type of seaweed grown in the Micronesian oceans. I wanted to create something to replicate the serenity it evokes, something oceanic and perhaps something you could find buried deep as a relic of some sort.
Materials:
Blue Topaz
Ruby
Sterling Silver
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In the year 2024, I went through an intense heartbreak.
I was tired of being tired and I needed a lot of protection. Every morning and night, I hid myself with my blanket pretending it was a shield. The shield became an important symbol for my healing and recovery.
Materials:
Rhodolite
Emerald
Sterling Silver
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This bespoke piece is still a work in progress.
It is a cup inspired by Celtic anthropology. As most of their relics are lost at sea, there was a cup found 150 meters deep filled with moss and completely chewed and eroded by water and sea creatures. There is a level of Celtic symbolism and a hint of cuteness to the idea. This piece has been an experiment in freedom and a great learning experience combining patience and play.
Materials:
Jeweller’s wax for bronze cast
This has been one of the most challenging custom pieces I’ve done.
It called for a lot of technical skills and new territory. The piece took much trial and error, with complications and failures. However, it brought me to a greater level of patience and understanding, elevating my foundation of 3d modeling and functionality in ring design. I had fun! And I would absolutely do it again.
Materials:
Sapphires
Pink Sapphires
Colombian Emeralds
Lab Grown amethyst
Smokey Quartz
Sterling Silver