Across parts of this land, Morning Singer ascends the rooftops to sing the dawn into being.
Here in our small space at the foot of the peaks, it is the song of the wind that greets me this morning, a soft susurration from the east to herald the sun’s appearance from behind a veil of gray clouds. It’s a song of autumn, no mistake and no matter the date on the calendar; however deceptively gentle the wind’s melody, it floats through the air upon a sharp undercurrent.
The sky to the east this morning has changed relatively little since Father Sun’s ascent. It looks for all the world like the stone in today’s featured work: a broad silver expanse shielded in part by soft gray the shade of a dove’s feathers, backlit by the golden fire that we know to be there, even if it shows itself today only in glimpses, and only from just the right angle.
The clouds bespeak storms to the east, past our side of the peaks — rain that we will not see, except at a distance. We will, however, spend the day in the light that will yet emerge from it.
From its description in the Bracelets Gallery here on the site:
Light In the Storm Anticlastic Cuff Bracelet
It is in the eye of the storm that we are afforded a glimpse of its passing, when the clouds part momentarily to let the light descend. Wings has captured the glow of those rays in this anticlastic cuff, as big and bold as the storm itself, as bright as the light that transcends it. The band is wrought of sixteen-gauge sterling silver, heavier than usual for the shaping required of an anticlastic band, and sloped gently upward on either side. Its surface is free of adornment save a row of chased traditional symbols that run its entire length: stylized thunderheads paired together at their bases to form a sig of the Four Sacred Directions, each mated pair embracing an Eye of Spirit, that which watches over us even in the fiercest storm. At its center, elevated upon a small sterling silver cylinder, rests another representation of Spirit’s Eye: the light itself, caught and held fast in a massive cabochon of dove-gray labradorite. The stone possesses breathtaking depth and clarity, shot through with angled inclusions like sheets of rain and refracting the light into a gold-tinged rainbow of color. Hand-stamped stars of various shapes and sizes spread stardust along the cuff’s inner band. Band is 1-11/16″ across; cabochon is 1-3/4″ long by 11/16″ high (dimensions approximate). Other views shown at the link. First in Wings’s new series, The Light Collection.
Sterling silver; labradorite
$1,800 + shipping, handling, and insurance
It is a piece with all the bold vastness of the sky. It’s a song for the departing storm of an autumn dawn, one that holds the melody of the morning clouds, of the light that lives within them and follows in their wake.
~ Aji
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