Dorophobia

or, fear of animal skin and fur.

Puppet made with plaster, enamel, leather, and rabbit fur. Necklace version with copper.

(The tongue is a finger puppet, and by that I mean the finger of a glove!)

Advocacy Poster 2

The small text reads:

                                     "One finger X-ray can cost $50-$200, even if insured."

                                     "Prescription drugs are not covered by Original Medicare."

                                     "10% of Rhode Island is asthmatic. 16% is uninsured.

                                      Inhalers are prescription-only."

                                     "A trip to the ER to treat a broken wrist is painful, but it is a luxury."

Internship with Jewels By Lubeck

Several weeks of silversmith training with Jay Lubeck have resulted in these, my first jewelry pieces made from scratch. Special thanks to Jay and the crew for helping me out BIG TIME! Jewels By Lubeck is an amazing business in the Atlantic Beach, FL area.

My silver pendent was an adaptation of the the fossilized sea lilies I recently saw at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's breathtaking Department of Mineral Sciences.

Not at Home: Artist Book

Many thanks to Oren Sherman for introducing me to the idea of an Artist Book. Through guided meditation and writing exercises in his class we all identified important childhood memories in order to find a meaningful subject for our books. A defunct home was my subject, presented as a stage set in a pop-up or fold-out format.

Plumage

 

Upon reading Frankenstein in Oren Sherman's Illustration class we were prompted to conceptually "illustrate" a personally relatable moment in the book. I was drawn to the monster's conflict between inner nobility and outer repulsiveness, so I made this peacock out of garbage.

200 Steps

The prompt was to find subject matter within 200 steps of RISD's Illustration building. I found things (on the ground, in the basement) and turned them into adornments.

  

January Jewelry

                        

Freshman Year at RISD

 

Hipster Barbie & Ken!

                                           

Oh, and that's the RISD mascot Scrotie above.

(Proof that Scrotie exists for those who disbelieve.)

Wunderkammer der Liz

At the urging of Lee Dejasu, and with inspiration from Joseph Cornell and Mark Dion.

A box for my jewelry. Spring 2009.

The little box gets her first teeth
And her little length
Little width little emptiness
And all the rest she has

The little box continues growing
The cupboard that she was inside
Is now inside her

And she grows bigger bigger bigger
Now the room is inside her
And the house and the city and the earth
And the world she was in before

The little box remembers her childhood
And by a great longing
She becomes a little box again

Now in the little box
You have the whole world in miniature
You can easily put in a pocket
Easily steal it lose it

Take care of the little box

-Vasko Popa

Bark of Flesh

Freshman year drawing final, semester 1.  12-05-08

2008 Jewelry Undertakings

Not my major, but my obsession; and one of my freshman year final projects at RISD.
Thematic elements: religious imagery, femininity/sex, violence/death; often juxtaposed in a single piece.