Summer here is the season of berry moons and blue skies, the former looming close and glowing pale rose, the latter as bright as the Skystone that borrows their name. With these earrings, Wings summons the brilliant beauty of those moons of planting and early harvest, along with the electric turquoise blues of the daylight […]
One of the jewels of this alpine range is the hidden forest to be found somewhere in nearly every slope and glen and vale. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to the mystery of their shadowy depths, coniferous greens and blackened moss pierced here and there by shafts of light. Each strand of hand-selected beads is […]
Alpine desert watersheds are filled with whitewater spirits, from caps and crests to the beings that live on their banks and in their depths to the ancient shell mounds and coral reefs that underlie their beds. With these earrings, Wings evokes these ancient spirits and their power, framed in the metallic beauty of the geologic […]
Summer here delivers all the beauty of a dragonfly sky, sun and storm combining to create an ethereal shimmer worthy of those tiny atmospheric messenger spirits, beings of air and water alike. With these earrings, Wings summons the animating spirit of the indigenous paddle-tailed darner, one of the larger local dragonflies whose colors manifest in […]
We live beneath skies both stormy and clear, with all the promise and possibility of misty blues capable of delivering the First Medicine. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to skies cloudy and clear, to the rains of summer and snows of winter and the mist and fog that link them with shimmering light. Each […]
This is an ancient land spangled with coral and moss, built upon rivers and reefs and alive with green even in the face of the deadliest droughts. With these earrings, Wings honors the ancient foundations upon which this land mass formed, and the beauty and medicine it offers us now. Each strand of hand-selected beads […]
In this place, there is little so powerfully beautiful as an autumn sunrise, the pale turquoise of the sky marbled by electric shades of coral and copper and crimson light. With these earrings, Wings summons the fiery glow of an October’s dawn to dance along the alpine peaks. Each strand of hand-selected beads is strung […]
We live in a land where it’s possible to see the sun in the storm, to dance in the rain and the golden glow of sunlight simultaneously. With these earrings, Wings summons the shades of sun and storm together, brilliant golds and blues accented with the translucent shimmer of the First Medicine. Each strand of […]
Summer’s fire manifests at the end of a lightning bolt, and in a post-storm sky ablaze with red-gold light. With these earrings, Wings honors the power of the summer storm and the fiery beauty of the sunset sky it leaves behind. Each strand of hand-selected beads is strung on filament-thin sterling silver wire: at top and […]
In this high-desert land, the alpine blues of water, storm, and sky are cause not for sadness, but for joy. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to the rich greens of peaks and slopes beneath the electric blues of sky and storm. Each strand of hand-selected beads is strung on filament-thin sterling silver wire: at top, […]
Rising or setting, the moons of twilight lend a haunting glow to a dusken world. With these earrings, Wings captures the lilac shimmer of the dawn and the fiery rose of nightfall, and the orbs that light the sky through the dark, and even in the day. Each strand of hand-selected beads is strung on […]
We live beneath an adobe sky, the rich fire of mica and clay and sun adance with the brilliant turquoise blues that give the jewel its local name. With these earrings, Wings summons the electric blue of of a desert morning, studded with the shades of the sun and marbled with the first clouds that […]
Late summer nights fall in glossy black, lit by the glow of moons in the shades of berries and smoke. With these earrings, Wings summons the light of budding and berry and hunter and first harvest moons to a cascading dance with the color of night. Each strand of hand-selected beads is strung on filament-thin […]
The Northern Lights paint the sky with the cold magic of Arctic foxfire, phosphorescent greens adance with luminous shades of rose and lilac. With these earrings, the second work in Wings’s new trio, the Spirits Dance series, he evokes the iridescence of opposing colors conspiring to set the night sky aflame. At center, the focal […]
When Earth and celestial spirits align just so, rare blue moons light up Indian summer nights. With this pair of earrings, the second work in his Indian Summer Nights trio, Wings evokes this summer’s magical blue moon event in richly hued and textured form. Each dangling drop is built around the amber glow of moonlight, […]
Summer is the season of wildfire nights, sparked by lightning, quenched by the storm, and lending the color of their flames to moon and stars and sky. With these earrings, the second work in his new Midnight Magic trio, Wings evokes the electric shades of fire against the darkened skies. At the top sit large. […]
The first raindrops bring the blues and grays of the stormy sky to earth, their medicine tangible and shimmering in the light. With these earrings, the second work in his new Midday Monsoon trio, Wings pays tribute to the rich hues of the thunderheads and the silvery gift that falls from them in summer. Each […]
In the alpine desert, there are few gifts so gentle as mist at daybreak. With these earrings, the second work in his informal Morning Mist trio, Wings honors the subtle shimmer of that mist on the mountain slopes, less than rain but more than dew. At the center of each long, dangling drop rests a […]
Here, the gifts of summer grow from the richest clay. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to an earth renewed by recent rains, all marbled red-gold and darkest brown now with emergent green. Beads are strung on filament-thin sterling silver round wire with diminutive diamond-cut sterling silver rounds anchoring either end and setting the glowing […]
Spring is the season when the water greets the sunniest of days, the time when, by way of a warming world, the dewdrop returns to the dawn. Wings honors dewdrop, grass, light, and dawn sky with these earrings in a cascade of new color. At the top, faceted rondels of rainbow moonstone embrace, first, a […]
In spring, dry lightning electrifies even daylight skies, with no need for rain to attend its birth. Wings pays tribute to its stark illuminating power and eerie capacity for fire with these earrings, long dagger-like bolts of jeweled color and precious metal. At top and bottom, old metallic glass trade beads, color a blend of […]
In the depths of winter, the flames of morning sun and the hard-frozen ice together create a cold crackling light. With these earrings, Wings calls the golden glow of the sun down to dance with the cold fire of the snow. At the top, deep golden orbs of faceted citrine embrace tiny diamond-cut sterling silver […]
In the depths of a high-desert winter, the mercury plunges below zero, creating air so pure and cold that it steals breath for its own. With these earrings, Wings honors all the force and beauty of cold deep enough to save a sleeping world. At either end, tiny faceted aquamarine rondels anchors each dangling drop. […]
Winter assumes another form above the snow line, as small patches of color in rich cold earth tones cede space to near-solid white. With these earrings in his new small seasonal series, Wings pays tribute to the many snow lines that score the peaks and cliffs and valleys of this ancient land, and to the […]
