Mary Fidler is pondering, wondering whether her logo as a designer, "mfide," rolls with sufficient ease off the tongue. It does, I assure her -- as long you know it sounds out phonetically as m-f-ide, and not m-fide.
Mary's second exhibition, which runs five more days until Dec. 21, is being hosted by Tokyo's RBR Center for Creative Arts in Moto-Azabu, for good reason. "It was because of courses taken there that I dared make a leap of faith, why I'm now a jeweler rather than an administrator."
From the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, Mary was always keen to learn. Liking school, she was a good all-rounder. "It was my younger brother who was the designated creative person within the family. Always making things, he now works as a milliner in Hong Kong."