Antique jewelry has always been an interest of mine; influences
in my work can be seen from the high-karat gold granulation of ancient Egypt,
Greece and Rome, to the Victorian fascination
with curiosities from the natural world incorporated into jewelry. Over
the last several years, I've been focused on col-
lecting antique mourning and sentimental jewelry. To learn more about this
type of jewelry, and its vanished industry, and to see some items from my own
personal collection please visit
the site at the link shown below — an
excellent and comprehensive resource for memorial, mourning, sentimental jewelry
and art.
Aside from being crazy about gems and jewelry, music is also a passion for me. In the early and mid 90s I was a regular fill-in for the legendary Magnus Johnstone on the Mecca Show, which was a regular Arabic and North African music show on WZBC at Boston College ( a non-profit, commercial-free radio station.) While I'm not as involved now, I do appear as a guest dj, under the name of DJ Sarafina, from time to time at the Enormous Room (which is not Enormous!) in Cambridge, MA. The E Room is the home of Beat Research — a weekly event promoting experimental music, run by resident djs DJ Flack (Tony Flackett) and Wayne and Wax (Wayne Marshall.) These two certainly know how to host a good time, so if you're in the Boston/Cambridge area on a Monday night, do check it out; who knows, you just might find me on the turntables.
