Final portfolio for Metals and Jewelry I at Towson University, completed Fall 2020 (remote learning semester during pandemic)

Each work photographed above has a uniquely different purpose and meaning. All of them are made from a base metal mixture of brass and copper which was formed using mostly hand tools 

The earrings on the far left depict post modern symbols that stand in for the sun and moon in the artist's Neo-Pagan religious view and solar rituals

The second piece depicts a woman's mouth being silenced behind a cage of thread and represents how women are often silenced by patriarchal and capitalistic forces 

The third piece (third and fourth images from the left) are glasses made from laser cut acrylic which has been sandwiched between two hand cut sheets of brass and riveted together. On the edge is an LED strip that lights up in the dark. This keychain represents how for ages in human society people have struggled to see how they enable racist and sexist ideas and pass them on to people with less privilege than them 

The last piece is a wearable decagram fire-starter pendant that depicts and celebrates the power of the classical Greek element "fire", and its modern semi-equivalent which is the state of matter plasma