Metals have a fluidity and movement to them. In working with metal, we come to understand and appreciate the personalities of each:

· Gold can be warm, rich, luxurious, much like a favorite chair.

· Silver is cool, expansive, petulant, like a precocious child. It is the least expensive, but requires the most skill to work well.

· Platinum is pure, rare, cool, nuanced, exacting, quirky like a weird uncle who is always interesting