Weston’s Begonia Wormhole Necklace #1 merges the botanical and the cosmic, transforming the delicate asymmetry of a begonia leaf into a portal that seems to fold space and time. Using anodized titanium, leather, and cotton thread, Weston builds layered, iridescent surfaces in shades of purple, silver, and black that shimmer like dewdrops or mercury. In effect, the work asks the viewer to imagine growth, decay, and transformation as interconnected forces, and to explore adornment as an expanded field that encompasses personal ornament and speculative landscape.
Weston joins traditional jewelry techniques with textile methods, resulting in large-scale wearable pieces that allow metal to move with the fluidity of fabric. She earned her MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013 and is an assistant professor of Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Weston maintains an active studio practice as a member of the JV Collective, a group of seven art jewelers anchored in Philadelphia but national in scope. She has completed artist residencies at the Baltimore Jewelry Center and with the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation in Amsterdam. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the CODA Museum and Design Museum Den Bosch in the Netherlands; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; and Woodmere.
