ABOUT

I’ve always lived in between things.
East and West. Privilege and marginalization. Head and heart.

Growing up, I often felt like I didn’t quite belong. For a long time, life felt like a series of forced choices — between one version of myself and another. Corporate or creative? Craftsmanship or scale? Luxury or innovation? Tradition or technology? I spent years trying to smooth the tension, to pick a side, to fit neatly into one path.

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I remember learning early on how to tone myself down — to be less expressive, less individualistic, more like everyone else. But the thing about constant assimilation is that it blurs the edges of who you are. Somewhere along the way, I lost touch with what fulfillment felt like on my own terms.

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That realization cracked something open. Since then, I’ve been on a path of unlearning and remembering — experimenting, feeling, exploring, and making. What I’ve uncovered is that I haven’t changed all that much. The things that brought me joy as a child still light me up today.

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I’ve always had an active imagination. As a kid, I invented things like a Kleenex box purse so I could always have tissues on hand. I made jewelry out of anything I could find. When my mother promised me her beautiful cut-glass perfume bottle once it was empty, I dumped it out on the spot — I guess I’ve always been “resourceful,” too.

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Decades later, not much has changed. I build companies, find loopholes, and invest in startups. I still design jewelry and make pretty vessels.

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My bespoke jewelry work is deeply relational — personal collaborations with my clients that transform their stories into talismans and wearable legacies. My ceramics, on the other hand, offer a more intimate, introspective lens: a way to explore identity, heritage, femininity, and the contradictions we all carry. Across both business and art, I find joy in the act of creation.

I’ve come to understand that my path isn’t about choosing one side or tempering the contrast. Transformation exists in the in-between. I no longer seek to resolve the tension. I let it shape me. I create from it.

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I work in the space between intention and surrender, luxury and innovation, minimalism and bold excess. I build teams and companies with heart — and craft pieces that are precise, expressive, a little mischievous, and just a bit wild.