It was in her final year in college that Casey first sat down at a jewelry bench, and it immediately resonated with her, it just clicked. She reconnected with the process of making something with her hands and she took quite naturally to the craft, she loved the intimacy of the artform. She began to develop her fabrication acumen with courses and internships, eventually taking a leap of faith and discovering, to her surprise and delight, that people were willing to take a chance on her by giving her work that would allow her to expand her expertise.

In her off time, she was always creating her own work, developing her own aesthetic language. Working with less expensive materials out of necessity allowed Casey a level of freedom and playfulness with her designs, an ability to hone her craft with abandon.

Casey’s approach to the design process, as entwined as it is with the physical fabrication of her work, is also philosophical, reflecting her pensive nature and profound appreciation for an artist’s capacity for innovation and expansion. “Each piece contains its own tiny, self-contained universe that marries the artist’s grand visions with the meticulous craftsmanship of the maker,” she explains. “Despite its small scale, a piece of jewelry carries immense emotional power for the wearer. I’m drawn to that duality of the personal and universal.”

For her COUTURE debut, Casey is expanding upon her Acros collection, which was inspired by the iconic arches and mold geometries found in architecture and art throughout history. The designs are also heavily influenced by the materials themselves, and Casey’s ingenuity and persistence in organically coaxing the yellow gold through hours of improvisational sculpting, bending and hammering, resulting in pieces with rhythmic, arch-inspired forms.