About the Artist
Born and raised in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Carson Davis has always enjoyed the arts. They were first a means of occupying her time in the winter, but soon became a therapeutic way to maintain her mental health, especially through grade school. Carson graduated Manteo High School in 2012 with honors and had plans to attend North Carolina State University to pursue environmental science.
Upon arriving in Raleigh, she found little satisfaction or peace of mind from the path that laid before her. Realizing she was doomed to be a white-collar professional, Carson threw aside formal education and promised stability to pursue the endless stream of creativity radiating from within. When she returned home, tail between her legs but glad for it, Carson wrote a book of poetry, danced professionally in the local theater production, choreographed for other theater productions, and began her education anew at the local community college.
Somewhere in between her four year journey for a two year degree, she sailed beyond the Gulf Stream, built an umbrella out of reading glasses, and cultivated her passion in metalsmithing. After graduating with an Associate’s in General Education in 2017, Carson became pregnant. Her daughter was born in January of 2018 and is her guiding light. In 2019, Carson started a jewelry business called Dvandva Design that primarily focused on her method of metal-manipulation, which can’t be found anywhere else.
Along with forging her own metals, she became a master of heat patinas. It is with this process that she creates fine works of art. She also landed some of her work on the red carpet at the Oscars in 2020 by creating jewelry with this technique. Her greatest achievement, aside from her daughter, is that Cicely Tyson said she was ‘a gem’.
