The definition of contemporary jewelry is always being stretched to include alternative materials such as cardboard, resins, found materials and animal parts. Today with our technologically driven society, materials seem to coincide with popular culture. This is the dawn of entertainment art. Formal qualities fall by the wayside and the viewer no longer gets lost in the piece. These issues of formal beauty are replaced with everyday pop-culture iconography. With today's low attention span/ instant gratification society, the one-liner piece seems to have more of a foot hold on today's culture and more of an impact on the contemporary art viewer. Color field, pattern repetition and formal materials that seemed to lure viewers in the past have been supplanted with contemporary imagery, social issues and political motives.

The use of shape and material in these pieces address the formal qualities in contemporary jewelry and speaks of the instant. This media evokes emotion and exploits its beauty to combine formal qualities with concept, bringing back the elegance and beauty that is linked with body adornment. The fact that jewelry is an art form that is mainly consumed or admired by the non-jeweler forces the maker to constantly question the value of adornment. This work questions the automatic, the instant recognizable subject of ourselves.