Deconstructing

26” silk threaded necklace featuring sunstone, garnet, ruby, aquamarine, Arizona Kingman turquoise, jade, rainbow tourmaline crystals.

Hand painted and sealed polymer clay pendant measures 2” long x 2” wide.

Metals used: brass

Lobster clasp closure.

We’re all deconstructing from something. Old paradigms are slipping; masks are crumbling; grade school lessons about the world we memorized as facts we now see were stacks of lies meant to bury the reality of what wreckage we are still enacting across the hemispheres.

Change is scary. The comfort of a lie only seems more safe than the fear of change.

We can use the caterpillar to butterfly metaphor. We can also simply acknowledge the fact we should not and will not tolerate one more brutal act against innocent life.