I can't get enough visual information. My eye never lands.

I've been studying design and the way we live with it for years: clothes, objects, interiors, architecture, materials, and the strange little details that make something feel right.

I'm interested in tension: beautiful with raw, expensive with ordinary, polished with a little bit of damage.

I make the things I'm drawn to. I wear them, live with them, take them apart, and put them back together.

This is my world.

Shannon Koszyk is an artist and maker whose work is rooted in a lifelong fascination with materials, form, and making.

She studied Fashion Marketing at FIDM San Francisco and Theatre at Seattle University. She founded her jewelry practice in 2007, but her interest in clothing and personal style began much earlier. In the 1990s, she had her own clothing line, alongside a continuing fascination with jewelry, interiors, objects, and the way all of these things exist together.

Over the years, her work has moved between jewelry, interiors, objects, clothing, runway collaborations, and sculptural installations. Today, her practice moves between two lines. The Disinherited is a rotating capsule of deconstructed clothing she designs. Her jewelry, sculptural work in sterling silver, bronze, and 14k gold, is what you wear with it.

It started when she was a child. She would take a hammer into the backyard, convinced something was locked inside the rocks.

She's been trying to get it out ever since.

A new object can be beautiful. But she makes things that look like they've already lived: worn, handled, carried. Evidence of a life.