This dress, eventually called Psyche, the Warrioress of the Heart, started as a response to having to face life as a sensitive. I envisioned a kind of protective crystal cocoon for myHeart, which seemed to be too readily impacted by intended or unintended meanness in the world. I decided to make a necklace that would be simultaneously protective and radiant and I chose Swarovski crystals as a medium because of their history of being cut to the highest specifications for the utmost brilliance. I knew the power of radiance.

My initial drawing was hurriedly sketched out and I was on my way. Many months passed in between work sessions. The months stretched into years and I was not making headway on it at all. Then I had the realization that the energy of this necklace was such that I could only work on it at Mt. Shasta, where I knew that the vibrational atmosphere would support the work. So for several summers I took the project to a cabin in Squaw Valley in the area and the seeming resistance disappeared.