The eye behind the
collection.

I am a GIA Graduate Gemologist, luxury watch buyer, and one of the few people in the country who has spent equal time inside the worlds of fine gems, important timepieces, and contemporary art — not as a tourist, but as a practitioner deeply embedded in each world.

For several years I wrote about the creative process in the contemporary art world, sitting with artists, asking them what happens in the moment before the work becomes real. Artists whose vision shaped me: the conceptual purity of McKay Otto, the collected universes of Nancy O’Connor, the raw emotional language of Lyle Ashton Harris, the monumental sculpture of Bernar Venet. Art taught me that objects carry consciousness.

Gemology taught me that the earth itself keeps a record. Every Kashmir sapphire, every Colombian emerald, every natural pearl carries geological time inside it. As a GIA Graduate Gemologist and luxury watch buyer, I learned to read that story — and to understand how volatile, political, and deeply human the market for beautiful things truly is.

I am also a deeply spiritual person. I attend the Center for Spiritual Living in Denver, where I study the Science of Mind. I have attended meditation retreats and study the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza. Through this work I have come to understand that objects carry more than monetary value — they hold energy, memory, and intention. Science and spirit are not opposites. For me they have always been the same conversation.