BeyondHardware

In my painting studio, hardware lay scattered all over the floor from a day's work of putting together a canvas or a sculpture. I love hardware. The functional shapes. The look of it. I love using the pieces for purposes that they were not intended.

I pick up the pieces, one by one. I look at them. I turn them around and around in my hand. Bright, shiny brass hinges, eye screws, lock nuts, bolts, nails, cotter pins, bits of copper wire and brass. As objects, they are beautiful, found objects to be made into something other than what they were intended.

Hardware in the abstract. Hardware as jewelry. Hardware as art.

I pick the hardware pieces up from the floor. I combine the washers and the cap nuts. I wrap everything in sight with copper, brass, or plated wire. Stringing tiny washers and nuts with glass and electronic parts, I make necklaces that are long and glittery and sexy. A little bohemian. A little edgy. A little punk-ish. And oh so shiny! Earrings, pins, dangles, clips, necklaces ... I make these little doo-dads for you to wear.

I created BEYOND HARDWARE in 1990 and continually created new pieces through 1996. Selling my wares from my table on the streets of San Francisco and Berkeley through those years was, on the best of days, chaotic and crazy. Always a bit ahead of my time, I decided to keep a box of stock, and some of my favorite pieces, for posterity.

Whether you are into punk, cyberpunk, steampunk, whether you are an artist, or anyone who just wants to express their shiny edge through the jewelry they wear, I am now offering these pieces to you, exclusively here, online.