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wing * stone * ephemera ::: Amulets to Protect & Portend ::: Handmade in ABQ, NM, USA

January

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Grey Day Atmosphere Earrings

The color of the sky is like glass--liquid and chimerical, it shifts with the movement of sun and cloud. We shall fill the internet with photos of atmospheric phenomenon--ordinary and exceptional, and still the color of the sky is most accurate in memory. Will you remember?

Cloudy enameled silver and gold drops drizzle from moody labradorite and shark tooth.

sterling silver, fine silver, silver solder, enameled fine silver + 24k gold, labradorite cabochon, fossil shark tooth specimen

Enameled Cottonwood Leaf Specimen Earrings

Like a specimen in a museum, a pair of Cottonwood Leaf specimens is pressed between two pieces of acrylic that is hand-cut, hand-finished, and rescued from the waste stream. The flora and fauna is picked from Albuquerque sidewalks, Rio Grande beaches, lost backroads—indeed the urban environment. All specimens are humanely collected from deceased insects, or sustainable plant sources, and show signs of a life lived beautifully. The frames are playfully enameled and kiln fired multiple times.

Meteor Shower Atmosphere Earrings

The color of the sky is like glass--liquid and chimerical, it shifts with the movement of sun and cloud. We shall fill the internet with photos of atmospheric phenomenon--ordinary and exceptional, and still the color of the sky is most accurate in memory. Will you remember?

Twinkling gems of opal and meteorite streak through night sky colored enamel drops.

silver fabrication, enameled fine silver + 24k gold, boulder opal, tourmaline, meteorite, Herkimer diamond, parrot feather, dragonfly wing

Merope Pleiades Necklace

"The Bee Eater"

Cloudy moonstone and bright bee wing hold aloft mortal blue sea stone.

sterling silver, fine silver, silver solder, copper, acrylic, bumble bee wing specimen found in an ABQ garden, rose cut pink moonstone cabochon, beach stone found on an Oregon Beach, quartz druzy bead.

Cabbage Moth Wing Specimen Earrings

Like a specimen in a museum, a pair of Cabbage Butterfly wing specimens is pressed between two pieces of acrylic that is hand-cut, hand-finished, and rescued from the waste stream. The flora and fauna is picked from Albuquerque sidewalks, Rio Grande beaches, lost backroads—indeed the urban environment. All specimens are humanely collected from deceased insects, or sustainable plant sources, and show signs of a life lived beautifully. It is all fettered together with tiny nuts and bolts.

Hollyhock Petal Specimen Earrings

Like a specimen in a museum, a pair of Hollyhock Flower Petal specimens is pressed between two pieces of acrylic that is hand-cut, hand-finished, and rescued from the waste stream. The flora and fauna is picked from Albuquerque sidewalks, Rio Grande beaches, lost backroads—indeed the urban environment. All specimens are humanely collected from deceased insects, or sustainable plant sources, and show signs of a life lived beautifully. It is all fettered together with tiny nuts and bolts.

Birth Zia Earrings

The world is divided into quarters. There are four times of day, four directions, four seasons, and four times of life. The sun Dawns in the East; Autumn follows Summer, and Death leaves room for Rebirth. The cycle persists. It spirals toward hope for the future and into memories of the past—let us take a moment to consider the present.

A nebula of soft gems and snake skin incubate clouds of pink and grey enamel drops.

Hawk in a Clear Blue Sky Cuff Bracelet

"His wing
Scythes down another day, his motion
Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear
The crashless fall of stalks of Time.

The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error.

Look! Look! he is climbing the last light
Who knows neither Time nor error, and under
Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings
Into shadow."

Steely edge of fossil tooth swings into the shadow of blue gems.

silver fabrication, 18k gold, kyanite, turquoise, aquamarine, topaz, shark tooth fossil

Enameled Rose of Sharon Petal Specimen Earrings

Like a specimen in a museum, a pair of Rose of Sharon Petal specimens is pressed between two pieces of acrylic that is hand-cut, hand-finished, and rescued from the waste stream. The flora and fauna is picked from Albuquerque sidewalks, Rio Grande beaches, lost backroads—indeed the urban environment. All specimens are humanely collected from deceased insects, or sustainable plant sources, and show signs of a life lived beautifully. The frames are playfully enameled and kiln fired multiple times.

Fine Winter Day Contraption Earrings

"Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame."

Sandia orange and snow white wing and petal dance upon sky blue labradorite and "Pecos diamond" like a flame.

Sterling silver, fine silver, silver solder, 18k gold, 24k gold foil keum boo, gold solder, acrylic, enameled copper, labradorite, Pecos "diamond", pepper flower, Sphinx moth wing.

A Gathering of Storms Link Bracelet

"To pile like Thunder to its close
Then crumble grand away
While Everything created hid
This -- would be Poetry --

Or Love -- the two coeval come --
We both and neither prove --
Experience either and consume --
For None see God and live --"

Thunder purple stones pile upon the poetry of butterfly wing and sky blue aquamarine.

sterling silver, fine silver, silver solder, Royal Aztec agate cabochon, aquamarine crystal specimen, chalcedony cabochon, butterfly wing specimen, amozonite bead

Grey Day Atmosphere Earrings

The color of the sky is like glass--liquid and chimerical, it shifts with the movement of sun and cloud. We shall fill the internet with photos of atmospheric phenomenon--ordinary and exceptional, and still the color of the sky is most accurate in memory. Will you remember?

Cloudy enameled silver and gold drops drizzle from moody labradorite and shark tooth.

sterling silver, fine silver, silver solder, enameled fine silver + 24k gold, labradorite cabochon, fossil shark tooth specimen

Enameled Cottonwood Leaf Specimen Earrings

Like a specimen in a museum, a pair of Cottonwood Leaf specimens is pressed between two pieces of acrylic that is hand-cut, hand-finished, and rescued from the waste stream. The flora and fauna is picked from Albuquerque sidewalks, Rio Grande beaches, lost backroads—indeed the urban environment. All specimens are humanely collected from deceased insects, or sustainable plant sources, and show signs of a life lived beautifully. The frames are playfully enameled and kiln fired multiple times.

Meteor Shower Atmosphere Earrings

The color of the sky is like glass--liquid and chimerical, it shifts with the movement of sun and cloud. We shall fill the internet with photos of atmospheric phenomenon--ordinary and exceptional, and still the color of the sky is most accurate in memory. Will you remember?

Twinkling gems of opal and meteorite streak through night sky colored enamel drops.

silver fabrication, enameled fine silver + 24k gold, boulder opal, tourmaline, meteorite, Herkimer diamond, parrot feather, dragonfly wing

Merope Pleiades Necklace

"The Bee Eater"

Cloudy moonstone and bright bee wing hold aloft mortal blue sea stone.

sterling silver, fine silver, silver solder, copper, acrylic, bumble bee wing specimen found in an ABQ garden, rose cut pink moonstone cabochon, beach stone found on an Oregon Beach, quartz druzy bead.

Cabbage Moth Wing Specimen Earrings

Like a specimen in a museum, a pair of Cabbage Butterfly wing specimens is pressed between two pieces of acrylic that is hand-cut, hand-finished, and rescued from the waste stream. The flora and fauna is picked from Albuquerque sidewalks, Rio Grande beaches, lost backroads—indeed the urban environment. All specimens are humanely collected from deceased insects, or sustainable plant sources, and show signs of a life lived beautifully. It is all fettered together with tiny nuts and bolts.

Hollyhock Petal Specimen Earrings

Like a specimen in a museum, a pair of Hollyhock Flower Petal specimens is pressed between two pieces of acrylic that is hand-cut, hand-finished, and rescued from the waste stream. The flora and fauna is picked from Albuquerque sidewalks, Rio Grande beaches, lost backroads—indeed the urban environment. All specimens are humanely collected from deceased insects, or sustainable plant sources, and show signs of a life lived beautifully. It is all fettered together with tiny nuts and bolts.

Birth Zia Earrings

The world is divided into quarters. There are four times of day, four directions, four seasons, and four times of life. The sun Dawns in the East; Autumn follows Summer, and Death leaves room for Rebirth. The cycle persists. It spirals toward hope for the future and into memories of the past—let us take a moment to consider the present.

A nebula of soft gems and snake skin incubate clouds of pink and grey enamel drops.

Hawk in a Clear Blue Sky Cuff Bracelet

"His wing
Scythes down another day, his motion
Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear
The crashless fall of stalks of Time.

The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error.

Look! Look! he is climbing the last light
Who knows neither Time nor error, and under
Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings
Into shadow."

Steely edge of fossil tooth swings into the shadow of blue gems.

silver fabrication, 18k gold, kyanite, turquoise, aquamarine, topaz, shark tooth fossil

Enameled Rose of Sharon Petal Specimen Earrings

Like a specimen in a museum, a pair of Rose of Sharon Petal specimens is pressed between two pieces of acrylic that is hand-cut, hand-finished, and rescued from the waste stream. The flora and fauna is picked from Albuquerque sidewalks, Rio Grande beaches, lost backroads—indeed the urban environment. All specimens are humanely collected from deceased insects, or sustainable plant sources, and show signs of a life lived beautifully. The frames are playfully enameled and kiln fired multiple times.

Fine Winter Day Contraption Earrings

"Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame."

Sandia orange and snow white wing and petal dance upon sky blue labradorite and "Pecos diamond" like a flame.

Sterling silver, fine silver, silver solder, 18k gold, 24k gold foil keum boo, gold solder, acrylic, enameled copper, labradorite, Pecos "diamond", pepper flower, Sphinx moth wing.

A Gathering of Storms Link Bracelet

"To pile like Thunder to its close
Then crumble grand away
While Everything created hid
This -- would be Poetry --

Or Love -- the two coeval come --
We both and neither prove --
Experience either and consume --
For None see God and live --"

Thunder purple stones pile upon the poetry of butterfly wing and sky blue aquamarine.

sterling silver, fine silver, silver solder, Royal Aztec agate cabochon, aquamarine crystal specimen, chalcedony cabochon, butterfly wing specimen, amozonite bead

How strange it is to start a new year in the still white of winter. Where, above ground, the world is at rest. Where below ground, roots dig deeper into the darkness. Only the stars are brightest in the winter. Let us lie dormant, and we will see what springs forth when the earth is bright again. Let the storms gather in thick purple heaps. Let the trees and the orange mountain stand bare against an aquamarine sky. Let the hawk hunt on a clear day.

wing * stone *ephemera

Amulets to Protect and Portend

Jewelry Handmade in ABQ, NM, USA