Route 511 Charity As the pandemic spread and

As the pandemic spread and my anxiety rose

A broken hearted swallow falls to the sea under a watchful all-seeing eye

In the fireground

one-of-a-kind memento mori pieces that explore the fragility of life and our desire to prevent

Those images inspired this miniature scene of a tiny shipwreck about to fall upon the cliffs of an unknown land

Route 511 Charity As the pandemic spread andRoute 511 runs through rural Ohio where I grew up. It cuts through flat fields, past abandoned Victorian houses and unused railroad tracks. Even as a toddler, the austerity of this desolate road filled me a clashing sense of wonder and unease. I created the enameled images in these earrings by "painting" with powdered glass on thin steel using tiny brushes and various scraping tools. I fired the design with a torch to fuse the glass to the metal. One