River brooches (unlimited edition; Pictures in Process)

Rivers and railroads. Rivers changeable, Railroads finite.

Steel, Sterling silver, Handspun linen strick thread, freshwater pearls, prose poems (one pictured).

On Rivers

I am grown from many—

From the sweetest slow Arkansas where I first had learned my name I was run far away to fickle deep and wild swift Missouri. The Mississippi, not so loveless but more careless I had learned. I do not trust the un-run land.

 
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Changeover at Liberty/Wheaton

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Whichita Yards, by the old slaughterhouse

By Second Shift.jpg

By Second Shift Brewery

Frontier Park.jpg

At Frontier Park

 

Process

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