Lucent: Sandra Enterline was a solo exhibition at Courtesy of the Artist, Sydney, Australia.

Lucent centered Enterline’s fascination with light. Despite her use of deceivingly simple forms, Enterline builds light and subtlety into her work through dualities: interior and exterior, precious and non-precious, and natural and industrial. Slices of irregular diamonds are suspended in dark, crude settings, evoking the delicate windows that punctuate the abandoned factories of her childhood.

To Enterline, each material that finds its way to her jeweler’s bench is precious. The diamond slices in her work are organic in shape and flawed with inclusions. The steel is made from iron ore that must be mined and smelted in hulking factories. The gold nuggets harken back to a simpler time of gold panning in the rivers of California. All of these materials embody the Earth. They all share a precious existence. They all share the light.