Sometimes what grows isn’t clean. These works consider what happens when the internal breaches the surface—when desire outpaces discretion. Textured forms swell over the fingers, coalescing like colonies, congealing at points of contact. They don’t hide. They spread. Beauty here is not passive—it implicates. To wear these pieces, to adorn the body, is to witness how objects transform us, and how intimacy, like infection, forgets risk.
The series began with a brooch sample, framing texture. That texture propagated into different formats—finger rings, scatter pins, earrings. Especially in earrings, where the piercing is out of sight, but never unaffected.