Lookbook

Found

I’ve had many losses in the past couple of years. My dark hair. My father’s health. My favorite uncle. My childhood. The original giddy enthusiasm for my work. My blind trust in a higher power that loves and guides me. My belief in destiny. The feeling that anything I want is possible if I set my mind to it. The certainty that I have all the time I need. My sense of magic and synchronicity. 

All of this has left a hollow feeling in my chest that physically hurts. Like a punching bag that has taken too many blows. Exhausted and hunched over, I give up. I can’t do this alone. I refuse to give up on la la land. Being reasonable has made me grow up, but it has also left me weary and without super powers. Who am I, if I can’t have a rich inner world of make-believe? 

Found necklace.
Handmade with labradorite and recycled sterling silver.


Jaguar

There is a fierce concentration inside of you; dormant — it is in your blood. It is the strength of your ancestors. It is the hammer and anvil of eons which struck the hardened steel of your spirit into a weapon of survival.
— Bryant McGill

Jaguar Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.

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Freedom

I once experienced real freedom. It came after many hours of meditation. I was no longer me, no longer the fragments of memory that make up my history. Not a child, nor a daughter, not a sister or an artist. I was not this body or these feelings. I was just space. Empty space. Terrifying and liberating space.

Freedom Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.


Beluga

From the deepest waters.

Beluga Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.


Integrity

Follow what feels true to you.

Integrity Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.


Eagle Totem

I brought this one back from my dreams.

Eagle Totem.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.


Crimson light

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.
— Rainer Maria Rilke

Crimson Light earrings.
Handmade with garnet and recycled sterling silver.
This Monday in my online shop.


Sunlight

I usually take pictures of myself modeling my jewelry on our first floor balcony, which faces a busy street. The best light is between 2 to 4 pm, which coincides with lunch time, and allows many people to closely observe the woman on the balcony taking pictures of herself. If I appear serious in my photographs, it's because I am ignoring cat calls and stares as I try my best to look natural and relaxed. 

This week, my neighbor was on vacation, so I was able to calmly take pictures in the bright, quiet courtyard at the entrance to her apartment. Oh the joy of privacy!

Sunlight earrings.
Handmade with carnelian and recycled sterling silver.


Fresh Light

Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
— Rainer Maria Rilke

Fresh Light earrings.
Handmade with chrysoprase and recycled sterling silver.


Violet Light

When a line becomes a circle.

Violet Light earrings.
Handmade with iolite and recycled sterling silver.


Golden Light

This week's challenge: large, luminous, lightweight earrings.

Golden Light earrings.
Handmade with Chiapas amber and recycled sterling silver.


Echo

She cut and filed. Then layered, soldered and set. Her work had a ripple effect. 

Echo ring.
Handmade with blue chalcedony and 100% recycled sterling silver.
This Monday in my online shop.

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Shadow

In most of my dreams I learn this: befriend your darkness.

Shadow ring.
Handmade with star diopside and 100% recycled sterling silver.
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Reverence

Art is my religion.

Reverence ring.
Handmade with natural turquoise and 100% recycled sterling silver.
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Ventricle

This is turning into a large series. I hadn't made rings with two stones before, and there are so many variables to explore.

Ventricle ring.
Handmade with Carnelian and 100% recycled sterling silver.
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Adaptation

I recently saw a documentary that showed how a wild tiger hunts its prey by moving its 500 pound body across fallen leaves without making a sound. It fails more times than it succeeds, but this practice makes it one of the most graceful and magnificent animals in nature. 

Adaptation ring.
Handmade with Chiapas amber and 100% recycled sterling silver.


Departure

Where do the words go that did not remain?
Where do the glances go that one day departed?
Do they float eternal, like prisoners of a gale?
Or do they snuggle, between cracks, seeking warmth?
Do they roll on crystals, passing for raindrops?
Do they ever turn into something?
Do they go?
And where do they go?
Where do they go?
— Silvio Rodriguez

Departure ring.
Handmade with labradorite and 100% recycled sterling silver.

Listen to Silvio's song here.


Recognition

I think I should title every piece: Look mom, I made this.

Recognition ring.
Handmade with chrysocolla and 100% recycled sterling silver.


Lighthouse

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Lighthouse ring.
Handmade with transparent quartz and 100% recycled sterling silver.


Jumpstart

Jumpstart my heart.

Vision ring.
Handmade with iolite, amethyst, and 100% recycled sterling silver.