A year ago I was hanging out watching some television when I started to get bored. I started thinking of work. Yeah I know, you got to be pretty bored when you start thinking of work. During this time I was working on a few paintings and concentrating on getting a clothing line out, so I had no real interest on starting a new design project. I wondered why I don’t wear more jewelry, I mean, I do work with jewelry. I know tons of people in the jewelry business who look like an amateur version of Mr. T. There was lots of press about how it is okay for men to wear jewelry. But acceptance wasn’t the reason I was or was not wearing jewelry. I was just disappointed in design, there really was no interesting jewelry for men. Perhaps like Joan of Arc, voices started talking to me, well perhaps it was the TV. I just know now that I didn’t get any paintings done or get the clothing line out, I became obsessed with my new project.

It has been a full year since the obsession that became Legacy has ruled my designing life. It started as a coy little idea and just grew from there. Little did I know how complicated designing this collection would be. I have designed several pieces of jewelry. I started when I was 10 or 12, working with my Dad. So I thought that designing this small collection would be a simple matter. It has been a full year and only now am I happy with the design, the feel, the craftsmanship and the texture of each piece. I was looking for the perfection of passion, when the collection could have a life itself, something that needed little explaining, but would tell the story itself.