Welcome to Wings’s online silverwork exhibition from his recent one-man show, Taos Pueblo: Ancestral Places, Sacred Spaces. Below, you will find photos of each piece that was included in the exhibit. Originally, we planned to use Wings’s own locked jewelry cases at the venue to ensure an attractive and secure display. To that end, we […]
STORIES Sterling silver triangle-wire cuff: $525 + shipping, handling, and insurance Our very culture rests on a foundation of stories: stories of mud and straw brick; stories of how we came to be upon this land and what our task is here. I try to capture these stories in the ancient symbols and patterns that […]
SUSTENANCE Sterling silver and onyx pendant on onyx and turquoise beads: $1,025 + shipping, handling, and insurance The Three Sisters, corn, beans, and squash, were gifts of the spirits to sustain the People. But the spirits also provide sustenance in other ways. The Corn Maidens are sustenance personified: They bring gifts of rain, and food, […]
MUD AND VIGAS Sterling silver ajouré Pueblo cuff: $575 + shipping, handling, and insurance SOLD. For more than a decade, I’ve paid tribute to the mud and vigas that make up our homes with a series of Pueblo pins modeled on Hlauuma (North House), where I was born: the adobe walls and open windows, the […]
CORNERSTONE Sterling silver, Royston turquoise, and coral pendant on antique silver beads: $725 + shipping, handling, and insurance RESERVED. It is easy to forget that a wall, a home, a structure, a society endures only through the strength of the cornerstone that serves as its foundation. So it is with our people: The public face […]
INTERSTICES Sterling silver, snowflake obsidian, and garnet cuff: $725 + shipping, handling, and insurance I have said that, as contemporary Native people, we live and thrive in the interstices between two worlds. Likewise, Spirit mediates between our worlds in the interstices, in those shadowy regions inhabited by the elemental powers, where we are afforded […]
THRESHOLD Sterling silver, lapis lazuli, and Sleeping Beauty turquoise cuff: $1,200 + shipping, handling, and insurance We face thresholds every day between sacred spaces and modern places: Some cross them; some of us do not. But there is another threshold in the other direction, between our contemporary existence and ways much older than memory, […]
THE REAL SACRED SPACE Sterling silver and lapis lazuli cuff: $775 + shipping, handling, and insurance Today, we have no choice but to walk in two worlds. But the second world has been imposed on us from without, by a culture not our own, and our people have endured by steadfastly maintaining our connection to […]
BRICKS Sterling silver stamped ingot necklace on sterling silver chain: $295 + shipping, handling, and insurance As our homes are built from the traditional bricks our ancestors used, so, too, my art is built on the time-honored methods used by my father and his father before him. To honor this tradition, I sometimes create silverwork […]
INGRESS/EGRESS Sterling silver and lapis lazuli Spirit Horse pin: $325 + shipping, handling, and insurance As our pine ladders provide us ingress and egress into the safety of our homes and sacred spaces, so, too, do our dreams provide us ingress and egress into the spirit world. Dreams have always guided my art and given […]
EMERGENCE Sterling silver and rose quartz wide floral-stamped bangle: $375 + shipping, handling, and insurance Sterling silver, hematite, and amber smooth-wire bangle: $325 + shipping, handling, and insurance Sterling silver, lapis lazuli, and tiger’s eye floral-stamped bangle: $325 + shipping, handling, and insurance Sterling silver and malachite faceted-wire bangle: $325 + shipping, handling, and insurance […]
