Watch the Wild Bloom Necklace go from a raw slab of laminated glass to a fully carved, hand-set piece. Every ridge and curve you see is cut and sanded by hand while submerged in water with nothing but the idea, a sketch, and a marker line to guide me. It's messy, it's slow, and it's my favorite part of the job.

Now that my 2025 show season is officially over, I find myself in that familiar, slightly terrifying place every art-show artist knows well: starting from scratch. The cycle begins again almost immediately—applications for the next year already sent out into the universe, waiting for results. Because every show I do is juried, each year is a gamble. I never know what my schedule will look like until the decisions roll in. I throw all my cards into the air and hope something lands.