I came late to jewelry/metals. My leg was badly injured from a physician’s error and since I had to just sit still, I set up a small studio and learned the basics of fabrication and casting. Growing from extensive mixed-media explorations into humorous narrative imagery, my brooches (of which I have made hundreds) are fabricated from lithographed tin images found in product containers and toys manufactured over the last one-hundred-thirty years. These images are 'sandwiched' between shaped layers of etched or patinated sheet silver. I use cold connections to enhance the layering of the images, employing rivets or bolts to fasten the pieces together. Three-dimensional relating images are cast in silver or fabricated to enhance the story. My metals work is a constantly evolving exploration of narrative through visual images. The aspect of narrative artmaking that interests me most is the use of objects as metaphors. I am seldom interested in directly depicting events of a story, but prefer to utilize the various symbolic meanings of objects so it is depicted less literally. Humor also plays a large part in my work. The search for the perfect lithographed image, the design of the silver structure, the choosing of a relating object to make a unique and unified whole - all of these come together in humorous narrative brooches that seem to give people a great deal of pleasure.