In contrast, Yager's "City Flora" pieces recreate in metals the shapes of plants that persist in living even in a dilapidated urban environment.
Yager recreates the leaves of plants such as purslane, chicory and dandelion in finely detailed silver and gold.
 In American Sidewalk Brooch (1999) Yager embodies purslane in blackened sterling silver.
The piece has been described as evoking both "glimmers of beauty" and sadness.

Pieces such as Dandelion leaf with tire tread texture (1997) have been described as both poignant and serene.
 
The organic forms and enduring materials used in Yager's floral pieces can be seen as providing a necessary balance to the sadness of the "urban stigmata" that she constructs from fragile city flotsam.
Together they suggest cycles of decay, death, and renewal.
In contrast, Yager's "City Flora" pieces recreate in metals the shapes of plants that persist in living even in a dilapidated urban environment. Yager recreates the leaves of plants such as purslane, chicory and dandelion in finely detailed silver and gold.  In American Sidewalk Brooch (1999) Yager embodies purslane in blackened sterling silver. The piece has been described as evoking both "glimmers of beauty" and sadness.
Pieces such as Dandelion leaf with tire tread texture (1997) have been described as both poignant and serene.  
The organic forms and enduring materials used in Yager's floral pieces can be seen as providing a necessary balance to the sadness of the "urban stigmata" that she constructs from fragile city flotsam. Together they suggest cycles of decay, death, and renewal.
Jan Yager