I am a queer jeweler out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. I specialize in interesting rainbow and trans pride designs in fused glass. I'd love to sell you something nice to wear!
Because of issues with my disability I have limited stock of some items; I will be attempting to run the kiln to make more of the popular designs when I can. Let me know if you're waiting on something that's out of stock and I'll prioritize it.
I got into glass as a medium because I wanted to make pride jewelry that was more interesting and beautiful than what you could find at big box stores. But what I discovered in working with it was a sense of self love and self acceptance.
Glass has a lot of interesting material properties. It "wants" to puddle and to be 6mm thick. There are ways to get around its limitations as a medium, but in the past year and a half of working with it I've really learned to embrace them.
And by not trying to learn to make it be in shapes it doesn't "want" to go into, I've learned a lot about accepting my own limitations and working within what works for me, as a queer person with disabilities and autism. Accepting its limitations let me accept my own.
But when you work with an artistic medium with limitations you learn to let your imagination flourish within those bounds. And I'm learning to apply that to my own limitations, too. Glass has helped put me on an even keel.
