My company's name, Jumanah, comes from a female Arabic name meaning Silver Pearl. I have given each piece of my jewelry a female Arabic name to continue with this theme. My logo design is from a floral arabesque. Floral arabesques are one genre of Islamic visual arts related to architecture. The movement of arabesques, born from spirals, contains the irreducible irrationality of life. This is the freedom of arabesques: the curves drawn are never mathematically perfect, the symmetry is rarely tyrannical and the distribution of ramifications contains a certain element of randomness. This is the dynamic, unstable equilibrium of life.

     I have been an American expatriate living in Africa and Europe for the past 14 years. Currently, I live in Marrakech, Morocco. Marrakech, a meeting place for trade caravans linking North and sub-Saharan Africa is majestically situated in a large palm-grove at the foot of the Haut Atlas mountain range. Eighteen beautiful kilometers of ochre-colored ramparts, the majestically imposing Koutoubia minaret, the urban monuments and palaces, the renowned Jemaa el Fna square, where dancers, musicians, snake-charmers and dealers in magic potions vie for center stage. This unique city is a place where tradition blends harmoniously into today's world.

     Along life's path I have enjoyed a variety of eclectic passions. Gardening is my first and foremost love that gives me the greatest satisfaction. It warms my heart to design with my hands in the realm of plants. In any soil on this earth, flowers all speak the same language. I am also an apprentice of foreign languages, Moroccan cooking, cultural studies, spirituality, astrology and alternative healing.
 

     Another passion of mine has been jewelry design. I began as a self-taught designer at the age of 12 when dangle earrings were popular. Through the years I continued to create earrings and necklaces from beads I collected in my travels. Formal training in Manhattan, New York in the study of designing in precious metals opened a new world of creativity in jewelry design for me. I am currently working with the Moroccan silversmiths creating jewelry designed with gemstones, beads and minerals from many places around the world.

     In my expression of myself, I consider it my privilege to give back to the communities that so richly bless my life. Life is no brief candle to me, but rather a brightly burning splendid torch that I use to spread the light of my compassion and thoughts. I believe we each have the capacity to make breakthroughs in our lives to imagine and to bring to this world not only the repetition of what has been but an emergence of what can be.

     At this time in my life, I am sharing my jewelry as my intimate form of communication to you. Every experience I have had in the past and progressed through has been in one way or another preparation for the work I am enjoying now. I have found my treasure here in Marrakech. One should never be afraid where you find your treasure because there your heart will be also. Follow your heart.

  
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