Diane Marshall

I am a self-taught art jeweler using mixed metal fabrication, found objects, antique photos, and stamped text to create pieces that are philosophical explorations. By nature a scavenger and recycler, I’m drawn to rusty bits of metal seen on a walk, jars of old buttons at a garage sale, antique keys, dice or photos at a flea market. The objects I find are infused to me with meaning, through their own history, use, and place in the culture of our recent past. In this resonance, I find a design vocabulary: lenses might suggest closer examination; ruler segments to discuss personal measurement or public evaluation, antique photos suggest our shared histories and humanity, keys and locks symbols of our defenses and locked away secret places. Joined together with life and living. As I design and fabricated the pieces, they become the synthesis of my life experiences, thoughts and searching, meant to be shared meditations with others.