In this land where winter snowfall is a gauge of survival the rest of the year, reflections on the thaw are a rite of spring. With these earrings, Wings captures the bold yet gentle colors revealed by the receding snowpack, and frames them in a silvery embrace worthy of the elegance of old-style Edwardian and […]
Hummingbirds are tiny messengers of warmer winds, a hovering sky held on their wings. Wit these earrings, Wings captures the delicate beauty and power of these small spirits, capable of flying in all directions and hovering at will, suspended in midair in a single place. Each dangling drop is hand-milled in a graceful, looping floral […]
An elemental part of the high desert’s beauty is the intense, rich blue of the mid-morning sky. With these earrings, Wings captures the robin’s-egg shades of the western vault after sunrise, and the flowering radiance of the day’s new light. Each dangling drop is built around a freeform cabochon, half teardrop, half triangle, of rich […]
In the cold season, dawn presents us here with moments of ethereal beauty in the form of frost at first light. With these earrings, Wings captures the shimmer of ice crystals tinted pale pink in the glow of a sun newly ascendant. Each dangling drop is built around a matched oval cabochon of rose quartz, […]
From the greatest raptor to the tiniest hummingbird, our avian relatives are clothed in little plumes that they occasionally share with us for ceremony, celebration, and prayer. With these earrings, Wings captures the downy appearance and curving shape of these feathers worn close to the bird’s body, diminutive, yet powerful too. Each dangling drop is […]
Winter or summer in this alpine desert land, the storm is often a moment when water and fire are one. Wit these earrings, Wings honors both elements is spectacularly elegant form, the glowing textured surface of silvery rain framing the perfect flame of small fiery suns. Each dangling drop is formed of lightweight sterling silver, […]
Where indigo meets ice is where the storm meets the light. With these earrings, Wings captures the spirits of both First Medicines, the stormy blues of wild weather and the silvery shimmer of raindrops and ice crystals kissed by the light. Each dangling drop is formed of lightweight sterling silver, saw-cut freehand in long gentle […]
The story of the Skystone is the story of how the sky becomes the rain. With these earrings, Wings transforms an old traditional motif into a tribute to the First Medicine. Each dangling drop is formed of lightweight sterling silver, saw-cut freehand in long gentle flares, the outer bases sculpted by hand into an old […]
One of the most powerful messengers of the spirits is among the smallest: Dragonfly, of the waters, on the winds, able to fly forward, backward, side to side, and hover too. With this extraordinary cuff, Wings honors this fragile yet resilient spirit, born of one First Medicine to dance upon the other, in a work […]
In this land where the mountains touch the sky, our world is warmed and illuminated by the joyous sundancing of our nearest star. With these earrings, Wings honors the sun in all its guises, and the gifts of life and breath it brings daily to the earth. Each dangling drop is saw-cut freehand of sterling […]
Axial position and orbital motion hold the Earth in the night spiral, moving through the darkened reaches of deep space on its own cosmic path. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to the haunting beauty of the night sky, the luminous cosmic foxfire glow of the oldest galaxies, the metallic shimmer of stardust, and the […]
There is a point on our cosmos inhabited and animated by the spiraling nebula of the Spirit’s Eye, a place where stars, at the end of their lives, go to be absorbed back into the cosmos to await rebirth. With these simple hoop earrings, Wings evokes the powerful forward motion of the universe’s forces, overseen […]
The glow of a galaxy older than time shows itself to us as a luminous green light. With these simple hoop earrings, Wings summons the imagery of those ancient stars, tipped with the auroral hues of cosmic foxfire. Each hoop is formed of slender but solid sterling silver triangle wire, shaped by hand and stamped […]
Lightning bolts are not the only luminous zigzag in our universe, which is busy bending cosmic light. With these simple hoop earrings, Wings summons the imagery of relativity’s once-theoretical zigzag, and the pinpoint perspective of light seem from the greatest of distances. Each hoop is formed of slender but solid sterling silver triangle wire, shaped […]
Interstellar light is like a river; it bends and flows, winding and wending its way around objects in space. With these simple hoop earrings, Wings evokes the sweeping, graceful path of the light that travels between the stars. Each simple hoop earring is formed of slender but solid sterling silver triangle wire, shaped by hand, […]
When the moon is near, even in her crescent phases our Grandmother’s glow lights up the dark. With these simple hoop earrings, Wings honors the illuminating beauty and power of this celestial spirit. Each hoop is formed of slender but solid sterling silver triangle wire, the two upper angles of each stamped freehand in a […]
When the moon is far away, the night may seem much darker, but still our Grandmother lights our path. With these simple hoop earrings, Wings pays tribute to this celestial spirit in her waxing and waning phases, in those moments where her orbit and the tilt of the Earth separate us, yet her glow still […]
We live beneath a Buffalo sky, mane made of dawn, a cloud-webbed blue and a gathering storm riding Thunderbird’s wings in his wake. With this extraordinary old-style collar necklace, Wings pays tribute to our beautiful elder brother, to the skies and the water and the wingéd spirits that drive it to the earth. The necklace […]
In these hard times and dark days, we must remember that we are present at the birth of new worlds, and it is our task to help them survive and thrive and grow into a future worthy of welcoming the generations to come. This extraordinary pendant is built around a truly phenomenal focal stone, a […]
There is haunting stillness to the storm and shadows that are born of a winter’s night. With this necklace, Wings evokes the powerful blues of the storm, the radiance of the silvery light and the shadows it casts, and the silence that tuns the cold dark to medicine. At the center of strand hangs a […]
The Butterfly Maiden holds the light in her wings. In these ever-shorter days and lengthening dark, Wings summons her shape and gifts into being with this powerfully inspirited necklace. The pendant is cut freehand of solid sterling silver, forming the outline of her body wrought in stones arrayed to the Four Sacred Directions. Her body […]
One day beneath an alpine desert sky shows us all the shades of the sun, and all of the medicine of its warmth and light. With this necklace, Wings summons the fiery amber glow of the sunrise and the banded sunset flames to dance with the luminous shimmer that filters through the midday storm. The […]
Our world dances around a celestial fire, orbiting the flames of a central sun. With this necklace, Wings evokes the fiery beauty of our nearest star, suspended from a hoop of jeweled earth and sky, air and light. The pendant is formed of a giant teardrop-shaped cabochon of natural spiny oyster shell, its colors manifest […]
Blue skies are born from the web of night, the turquoise light of dawn pushing back the dark for yet another day.With this extraordinary necklace, Wings honors night, dawn, light, and the talismanic jewel that wears the color of the sky. A gigantic freeform cabochon of ultra-high-grade black-web Kingman turquoise, less teardrop than raindrop, rests […]
