No other medium so easily lends itself to secret meanings as jewelry, granting jewelers unique responsibilities to advocate and create uplifting work. In 2020 I fully embraced the artistic aspect of being a jeweler, culminating in a moment of reckoning: “if I claim myself a contemporary artist I must advocate more than just the fairly safe, sustainability”. Since then I’ve created ecofriendly works that subtly bear witness to civil/human/trans rights, pride, infertility and child-loss.