I’ve been toying with this idea for a few years now, but given the state of 2025 it makes sense to finally release it. This necklace represents the duality between power and powerlessness, between all-consuming rage and the zen-like ability to let go. The glass bauble can be broken by the hammer (it is quite heavy) to release the salt crystals, salting the earth behind us, but at what cost? Do we value the object over the action? And what is the value of such a symbolic action in a world reduced to political and personal theater?

Freedom in destruction. Destruction in freedom. The choice, such as we are allowed, rests with the wearer.

The piece is a silver metallic lariat necklace measuring 83 cm long when unraveled and laid out end to end. On the stationary end of the lariat sits a hefty cast metal hammer. On the end that threads through the lariat sits a domed locket filled with pink Himalayan rock salt. There is a small clasp on the back for ease of wearing.