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 […]
The story of Grandmother Turtle is one of a world born of the waters, ensuring the First People’s survival. With this extraordinary necklace, Wings honors the ancient story, its First Peoples, this humble grandmother spirit, and the waters from which she raised a whole world on her shell. The pendant is saw-cut freehand into a […]
In the vastness of the space between worlds, Spirit Horse rides the arc of the sky. With this necklace wrought in vintage style to evoke the old traditional naja, Wings honors space, sky, and Spirit Horse in beautifully bejeweled fashion. The outsized pendant is not cast but saw-cut entirely freehand, its crescent stamped in alternating […]
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 […]
As the night falls, the world embraces us in the cosmic beauty of twilight. With this necklace, Wings evokes the reds and purples of sunset against the silvered black of impending night, of the flowering of moon- and starlight in a cloud-bejeweled sky. The pendant is built around an extraordinary teadrop-shaped focal stone, one that […]
From ancient fires is our whole world born. With this extraordinary new necklace, Wings honors the fires, the gifts of the ancients, and the green of an Earth reborn. The pendant, cut freehand to follow the lines of the focal settings, is edged freehand in scalloped motifs that flow like water and dance like flame […]
From new moon to full moon and all the way around the sun, the arc of an evergreen earth is a crescent of life, abundance, and light. With this necklace, wrought in an old naja style, Wings pays tribute to earth and season, light and time, and the fertile crescents of alpine land evergreen year-round. […]
Algonquin Woodland peoples know the ancient story of how the First People were saved by the gift of Grandmother Turtle’s shell, which is how this land mass came to be called Turtle Island. Wings honors not just her gift but her very being and spirit with this necklace, featuring articulated head, legs, tail, and beautifully […]
Love is marked by hearts aflutter, by the feeling of magic in one’s spirit, borne on the soft and gentle wings of a butterfly. With this extraordinary necklace, Wings honors the medicine of love, the beauty of fire and sky, and the deceptive strength and resilience of these wingéd messenger spirits. The pendant, big and […]
The gifts of this indigenous earth are jewels beyond price, symbols of a love ancient and eternal. Wings honors the love, the gifts, and the example set for us with this necklace, wrought in the oldest of gems wrapped in the embrace of precious metal in the shade of the light. The work is built […]
From the heart of the earth our whole world grows. Wings pays tribute to this evolutionary process with this necklace, a cross that is not a cross, but the embodiment of elemental forces and nurturing spirits. The pendant’s form is a very old design, one that circumvented colonial insistence on Christianity by appearing to adopt […]
The light of a high-desert autumn sets the land aflame amid the chill dance of Fall: early frost and sunset fire. Wings calls to the circle leaf and flame, frost and light, with this extraordinary necklace, a medicine shield manifest in the shades of season and time, wrought as a tribute to the winds and […]
Beneath the brilliant flames of the sun, the spirit of the earth is dancing for the fire. With this necklace, Wings gives our mother form and shape and motion as she spirals from a radiant cascade of molten gems. The work begins with the pendant, two separate pieces to form head and body, stones bezel-set […]
Our prayers spiral heavenward on tendrils of smoke and light. With this necklace, Wings honors prayer’s practice and process, and the tools that make the hearing of them possible. The piece is built around an extraordinary cabochon of silver-sheen obsidian in a gorgeous trillion cut, three equidistant sides arranged point down, its domed and beveled […]
The Northern Lights set even southern skies ablaze with the beauty and brilliance of Aurora’s flame. With this necklace, the first work in Wings’s new trio, the Spirits Dance series, he pays tribute to the spirit of the dawn, the fiery power of the sun, the boreal glow of deepest night, and all the shades […]
The most vibrant spirits of the warm winds dance all season long. This is the best of the high-country Summer: wildflower meadow under a midday sky, an emerald earth and a turquoise expanse alive in the silver light. With this necklace, Wings calls the flowers to dance once more, from the earliest days of spring […]
Wisdom rests within the embrace of the stars and the sacred directions. Wings summons them both to the center of the sky in this revival of one of his older styles, a traditional Southwest-style cross cut freehand and wrought in heavy fourteen-gauge sterling silver. In echoes of older works, he extends the upper spoke of […]
We call the path of existence a journey, a hoop, but it is also the work of searching for the sacred. With this old-style collar-design necklace, Wings honors the old roads and ways, the circle between past and future, the worlds that lie ahead, and the signifiers of the sacred that direct and heal us […]
In a good year, Indian summer nights bring the first harvest moon. With this necklace, The first in Wings’s new Indian Summer Nights trio, he honors season, time, and the amber glow of the moon hanging near and low. The entire strand replicates a recurrent pattern: a fiery freeform nugget of old amber, flanked by […]
The moons of summer lend their magic light across three seasons, from the downward slope of spring through the whole of the summer to fall’s first harvest. With this necklace, the first work in his new Midnight Magic trio, Wings honors all the shades of our Grandmother’s robes as she rides the warmer winds across […]
Summer is the season of the return of the rain, arriving in a series of small but powerful storms. With this necklace, the first work in his new Midday Monsoon trio, Wings honors the traditional patterns of weather, climate, and season, and the gift of the First Medicine that the rain delivers to a hot […]
The dew at sunrise transforms each morning into moments of shimmering magic. With this necklace, the first work in his informal Morning Mist trio, Wings pays tribute to these humble drops of the First Medicine, gleaming on a green earth in the newborn light. The strand’s focal consists of four extraordinary plump doughnut rondels of […]
Summer is the season of meteor showers, of the mystical flames of falling stars that pull the green glow of foxfire from the earth and aurora from distant skies as they arc through the night. With this necklace from his newest collection of extraordinary bead jewelry, Wings calls down the refracting green fire from the […]
