Brenda Schweder, US

Brenda Schweder spins narratives of reinvention—curating and recombobulating disparate found objects into jewelry-sculpture and building new stories of whimsy, silly, and sass! She tells the tales of stumbled-upon discarded elements using her own secret-code lens of color and minimal engineering.

RiteSpeak comments on our current climate of extreme polarization of ideals and politics. One must, in my opinion [see, there I go again], couch almost everything one says in order to avoid offending. Perhaps this tie-on apparatus—a communication filter that reworks our verbiage into meanings the listener wants to hear—will protect us from the judgment and un-kindnesses we're currently facing?