This body of work emerges from a personal moment of reckoning—where fragility was not an abstract idea, but a lived, shifting condition I needed to face. These pieces trace the intimate terrain of vulnerability: the quiet, unstable edges between strength and collapse, between the self I present outwardly and the soft, unguarded interior that is usually unseen.
The materials themselves—metal, enamel, and laser-engraved marks—become a language for tending to this complicated state. I lean into color, play, and tactility as a counterweight to the heaviness of uncertainty. Each piece is a deliberate act of re-centering, a small wearable site where permeability, resilience, and doubt coexist.
In holding fragility with care rather than resistance, I invite the possibility that tenderness can be a resource—not in spite of vulnerability, but because of it.