LOTEA':
Lotea' will be my next series of jewelry including hair pieces (dreadlock hair falls), in the late of winter early spring. Lotea is derived from the Lotus flower and is meant to be a name, which represents the spirit of nature preserved and re-born throughout time.

Components:
It will involve a fusion of gardens, forests and other elements of collected nature preserved in aspects of place and/or time.

In order to try and capture the time and place effects, I will use vintage components from different eras, and use examples of time with watch pieces and other memorable events in childhood and elder age. ex. (the treehouse piece represents the time spent during youth, while the scull piece represent death and rebirth.) Basically I'm mixing elements of past, present and future while trying to preserve it in a cyclic theme of death, re-birth and the stages between in nature.

Materials:
I will be making china stoneware clay flowers out of a vintage 1950's design, re-finishing vintage floral pieces from the 60's, firing fine and sterling twigs, firing fine silver leaves, carving and casting sterling silver skulls, using natural pebble stones, making china clay pebble stones, crocheting organic cotton, using kanekalon synthetic hair and wool for dreads in pastel and earth tones, I'll be using vintage-esque timepieces with hand made watch hands, and making hand wrought chains in sterling, copper and brass.