S. Sanchez is a gender non-conforming Chicano Metalsmith and jewelry artist from Houston, TX, with an MFA from Texas Tech University. Sanchez reflects on the relationship between adornment and power and identifiers. They explore how specific icons and placements of jewelry objects can signal messages of queerness. Sanchez creates adornment using the imagery, icons, and symbology created within their illustrative practice and the visual language of their cultural background. Sanchez continues the tradition of utilizing adornment to signal the power of the wearer by creating jewelry made for queer bodies that assign status and power to marginalized identities. Combining ancient methods of creation, such as casting, with contemporary advances such as electroforming, they find their footing in an ancient and ever-advancing media. Through jewelry, they honor the traditions and creators that came before them while navigating the contemporary times they exist within.