Pair of modern bone earrings with elk fur tassels, placed on a textured brown surface with soft beige and brown fabrics nearby.

MATERIALS ARCHIVE: Bone Forever my favorite material to work with. Waste, not so much, but discarded and left behind by its former host, working with bone has always felt like a coming home to nature as I would work with so many other systems-made waste forms. Each bone was found shed of the animal it once belonged to and I would create with them on their own or paired with other found materials. Techniques: sawing, polishing, shaping, sanding.

Other materials: horse hair, glue, Argentium silver, brass

A collection of assorted bones earrings on a green fabric background with blurred dried plant in the foreground.

Elk bone with repurposed horse hair from discarded violin bows, 2020

Deer with Argentium silver, 2019

Pair of dangling earrings with square and rectangular white bone beads on a brown fabric background.
Close-up of a woman's left ear with a unique dangling earring, showing part of her cheek and shoulder. The earring features a long, curved white bone attached to a thin chain with a small spiral detail at the end.

Fox bone with brass chain, 2017

A pair of modern earrings with bone pendants and brass hooks displayed on a small white square block, with a dried plant and a brick in the background.

Elk and brass, 2019

A pair of white earrings made from bone with curved rectangular and square shapes resting on a textured beige fabric background.
Brass hoop earrings hanging on a plant stem among large green leaves.

Elk, 2019

Fox vertebrae and brass, 2018

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