I'm a multi-disciplinary designer who has spent the last two decades moving between mediums - architecture, paper goods, metal jewelry and ceramics - following the same impulse each time: to make something meaningful with my hands.

I studied architecture at Cornell University and worked as an architect and exhibition designer before starting a print company Sub-Studio with my husband, Sean Auyeung. We screenprinted prints, cards, and journals and sold our work online, and to stores such as the MoMA Design Store, among others. When I transitioned into jewelry in 2007, I founded Brevity - named for "the quality of expressing much in a few words" - and built a practice around one-of-a-kind, handmade pieces that carry personal meaning.

For nearly two decades, that's meant working in metal - stainless steel, sterling silver, 14k gold. My personalized collections turn a loved one's handwriting, a child's drawing, or hand-lettered calligraphy into wearable jewelry. Every custom piece starts with someone else's story, and I shape it into something they carry close. The Empowerments collection takes a different approach - single word necklaces like RESIST, FIERCE, and BRAVE that function as daily intention. I designed the RESIST necklace for the Resistance Revival Chorus, and they wore it on the Tonight Show, to Carnegie Hall, and to rallies and rehearsal spaces around the country. I believe in not just looking good, but in doing good - 10% of all Empowerments sales go to Girls Inc, and the amazing work that they are doing to empower girls all around the country.

In 2024, after years of working primarily with metal and too many hours spent on a computer, I started exploring ceramics. I spent a year and a half exploring the properties of clay, testing forms, and experimenting with how glazes interact with one another. That process produced Glaze Paintings - a line of handmade ceramic pendants. I cut each shape by hand from a slab of clay, layer glazes on top of one another, and let them blend and surprise me in the kiln. No two pieces come out the same. I produce them in small batches, and every one is a one-of-a-kind piece of wearable art.

The thread that connects all of my work - from architecture to screenprinting to metal to clay - is a desire to explore design and craft through different artistic mediums. Each material teaches you something that the others can't. Metal is precise and permanent. Clay is unpredictable and alive. What stays the same is the intention: to make something by hand that expresses much in few words.