Our world is alive with molten earth and magnetic fire, an impossibly hot core cooled on the surface by the air, together just enough for us to survive and thrive. With these earrings, Wings honors our world’s internal heat and the compelling attraction of surface flames, particularly in these cold dark days of winter. Each […]
Alpine desert skies are blue ribbons in winter: electric veins of turquoise and cornflower that wend their way through clouds overhead, reflecting their brilliant shades in the rivers winding their way between iron-hued frozen banks below. With these earrings centered by a pair of long freeform daggers of ribbon [boulder] turquoise, Wings pays tribute to […]
Ours is a world of oxide and flame, the only known planet on which fire is possible and one in which weathering of that which makes its surface creates extraordinary beauty. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute in beautifully spare traditional form to the oxide minerals that make up most of the Earth’s crust, and […]
In these lands, rain and that which brings it is life, breath, medicine: sacred waters, sacred sky. With these earrings, Wings honors the turquoise blues of the alpine desert skies, the marbled white webbing of clouds that become the storm, and the rich greens and browns of this thriving mountainous land. Each compact drop is […]
If water is life, and breath, and medicine, then the rain is itself an atmospheric love, one skies and storm bestow upon the earth. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute the turquoise blues of those alpine desert skies, to the Skystone story that turns raindrops into jewels, and to the earth that survives and thrives […]
Old stories tell of the spirits who bore witness at the world’s birth, watching the earth rise from the waters to form this land mass we call Turtle Island. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to the stories, the spirits, and the beauty and power of earth and water and sky, the golden-brown crags of […]
In autumn, our world is ablaze with the warmth of desert fires, amber leaves against crimson sunset skies above the craggy cliffs of these stark, sere lands. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to a landscape alive with the flames of fall, a little last fire to warm our spirits before the first snow flies. […]
Mother Earth’s ribbon skirt is woven in shades of water and sky and lush evergreen and worn in celebration and solemnity alike. With these earrings, Wings evokes lush beauty of a world in harmony, while honoring the power of women’s traditional dress. Each dangling drop is built around a triangular cabochon of electric blue chrysocolla […]
Alpine desert skies deepen their blues as they become caught in sunset’s web, fire and water braided together in one final embrace before fall of night. With these earrings, Wings summons the teal-blue turquoise of these clear twilight skies, veined and webbed by the last of the clouds, all limned in crimson fire. Each dancing […]
No fall season is complete without a trip to the haunted forest, a timeless element of every ancient alpine environment. With these earrings, Wings honors the bare branches of the trees, the shadows and stormy skies of an autumn night, the occasional shafts of moonlight that shine through the limbs and trunks, and the spirits of […]
Part of what gives autumn its haunting beauty is the dance of bare limbs in fall winds. With these earrings, Wings evokes the skeletal but striking appearance of the branches against a stormy night sky before the first snow flies. Each dangling drop is built around rich, lightly domed cabochons of Picasso jasper in a […]
Autumn is the season when Grandmother Spider returns, hard at work weaving the web of night. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to the work of the many orb weavers creating their delicate mandalas beneath the eaves now, as well as to the currently smoky, occasionally stormy skies of fall twilight. Each dangling drop is […]
We live in the land of raining sun, where the thunderheads of monsoonal storms play hide-and-seek with the brightest orb in the sky. Wings gives form and flow to rays and drops alike with these earrings, hand-wrought of sterling silver and fiery banded simbircite in the brightest shades of the dawn. Each dangling, dancing drop […]
Dawn takes flight on silver wings, bearing the orb of a chrysalis sun. Wings summons the sun and the transformative spirit of the day with these butterfly earrings, newly emerged from the cocoon of night. Each drop drifts gently from side to side, its flared top and bottom adance in sharp relief. At the center […]
Our world soars on warm silver winds and floating azure skies. Wings gives form and life to wind and sky and the small spirits that inhabit them with these butterfly earrings, all graceful silver wings holding at their heart perfect blues of summer skies. Each dangling drop flares elegantly at top and bottom, winglines articulated, […]
When the sky opens, the First Medicine falls . . . and a lucky few will find drops hardened into gems on the earth at their feet. With these earrings, Wings honors the crackling skies, electric blue with a fine web of clouds, and the talismanic power of the turquoise to which they lend color […]
In this alpine desert land, where the rivers meet is a place of medicine. With these earrings, Wings honors this great gift of this place even as he summons the beauty of their brilliant blues framed by rich earth and silvered light. Each dangling drop is formed around an oval cabochon of ribbon [boulder] turquoise, […]
This alpine desert land is one veined with the lifeblood of wild rivers, of streams and sacred lakes and watersheds large and small that feed the land and give it life and breath. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to their wending pathways and the craggy walls and banks that hold them safe in their […]
Leaves robed in red and gold drifts and dance like flames on fall winds. With these earrings, Wings evokes the spirits of autumn, of scarlet leaves and low golden light eddying together on the chill whirlwind of an early dusk. Each long, dangling drop is built around a focal cabochon of vibrant Red Creek jasper, […]
In a volcanic land of lakes and rivers carved through mountains emerged from timeless seas, of formations built atop ancient shell mounds, the alpine prairie flowers bloom with the first wild petals of summer. With these earrings, Wings summons spirits older than time to dance with newborn blossoms in the fiery shades of genuine sponge […]
The moon rests on a blanket of stars spread to the four directions. With these earrings, Wings places a jeweled version of Grandmother at the center of her sky, with silvered stars shooting along their heavenly trajectory beneath her. Each bold dangling drop is hand-milled in a line-and-dot motif hat seems to follow the path […]
However dark the night, Grandmother Moon ensures always that we are held in the light. With these vintage-style naja earrings, Wings honors our Grandmother’s power and medicine, the hoop-like nature of her embrace, and the silvery light that she casts upon our earth in the darkest hours. Each bold drop is saw-cut freehand in a […]
The nights when autumn dances with the chill of early dark is the season of the Little Winter moons, an ethereal drift of magical light across a cold clear sky. With these earrings, Wings honors the shimmering orbs that light the first fall of the small snow, large and close and whispering of the real […]
Storm medicine comprises many gifts: the water, the light, the beauty and power of elemental forces that keep our world alive. With these earrings, Wings honors the rain, the haunting light, and the sheer raw beauty of sky and what grows from its gifts. Each dangling drop is saw-cut and scalloped freehand, an Eye of […]
