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Looking back is not something we need to dwell on often. In lives well-lived, it is the Now and the Future we must concentrate on. The past is largely unalterable. Happy or sad, we must move along. Encountering a great milestone, however, prompts reflection, particularly a review of the manifested ideas involved in a singular career focus such as, in my case, fifty years of the design, creation, and marketing of jewelry forms. For any creative soul, these forms may reveal themselves as physical constructions in materials such as stone, steel, silver, shells, or turquoise.
“Five decades in anyone’s life is a long time!”
They may exist as paint on a canvas or as bronze mimicking clay. Or they may be of an ethereal nature, on paper or in the air, such as music, dance, theatre, or storytelling. Different as they are, these all emerge from the same enigmatic source. My artistic and business journey has always been solitary. And my methods, intuitive. None of us lives or works entirely alone, and certainly we cannot predict life’s unfolding amidst its ever-changing landscape, but to own and manage one’s responses and trajectory is ideal.
At this 50-year anniversary, however, it is time that the puzzle of my work be assembled into a coherent visual story.
“The work, as they say, speaks for itself!”
In revisiting my own creative and logistical processes, I am confronted by the fleeting traces of my life’s accomplishments, the successes and the failures, the step by step realization of “I can do this!,” now marked not only with retrospection, but also with an archive of completed jewelry designs so significant that it surprised even me. In fact, it is this revelation of the overwhelming quantity and diversity of works in these fifty years that struck me most. Even without this book or my commentary, the story of my life’s career can be gleaned from that fact alone. The work, as they say, speaks for itself!
