The sky sheds a single tear, and it becomes the rain. With this pendant built around an extraordinary Skystone, Wings evokes the shape and spirit of the First Medicine in beautifully spare and elegant form. The focal is formed of a large freeform cabochon of ultra-high-grade black-web Kingman turquoise with faint water webbing, a teardrop […]
The bluest waters are best viewed from above, where the light grants them the fullest beauty. With this pendant, Wings summons the spirit of a green earth embracing the deepest blue of the First Medicine, the powerful and starkly beautiful lifeblood of the land. The pendant is built around a phenomenal focal cabochon of azurite […]
From sparks and smoke does fire rise, great columns of flame to warm and light our world. With this pendant built around a extraordinary material, Wings pays tribute to the element, singular to this planet, that makes our survival possible. The pendant is built around an eye-dazzling rectangular specimen of tiger iron, a compound material […]
Autumn in the alpine forest is a world embraced by the bare blue bones of night. With this pendant, Wings evokes the skeletal beauty of bare-limbed deciduous trees amid the shadowy blues of their evergreen cousins, all from without by setting sun and rising moon and all the stars of the clear desert sky. The […]
Eternity in a spiral galaxy will one day find us meeting n the. Bridge of Stars. With this pendant, an extraordinary tribute to the traditional crescent known as the naja, Wings honors the arc of the cosmos, the place where the stars come together, and the earth that meets them below. The naja itself is […]
Our world lives and thrives by the breath of the light. With this pendant, Wings honors these agents of respiration and the medicine that grows and flows therefrom, wrought in the shapes and spirits of ancient styles and symbols that hold us safe in the embrace. The naja itself is formed of heavy-gauge sterling silver […]
In the heart of the rainy season, the last of the storm falls gently from a fiery sunset sky. With this pendant, Wings calls the crimson skies of dusk down to one last dance with raindrops illuminated by the day’s final rays of light. At top sits an extraordinary rectangle of apple coral placed on […]
Eagle carries the medicine of earth and sky upon his great wings, feathers tipped with rain and full of the gifts of soil, seas, and sky. With this pendant, Wings honors the grate raptor who also lends us his feathers to send our prayers between that same earth and sky, and the greens and blues […]
Part of life is growing together: of deepening one’s roots, reaching one’s limbs in embrace of community, opening oneself to the world’s possibilities. With this pendant, Wings evokes the intertwining of body and spirit, of oneself with those we call our relatives, together reaching greater height and breadth and depth than we could do alone. […]
We live in the kaleidoscopic embrace of a spiral galaxy, arms gracefully extended in a rotating and radiant orbit of the very dust of creation. With this vintage-style ingot pendant, Wings evokes the unfurling of these great spokes of cosmic light, each sweeping arc extending from a single central hoop, signifying life itself. The pendant […]
Dragonflies are messengers of love and joy, small spirits dancing on the light. Wings pays tribute to their outsized power and ethereal beauty, and to the old ways of silversmithing, with this pendant-and-earrings set wrought vintage-style in sterling silver ingot. The necklace, shown in close-up below, is crafted of ingot silver, molten, poured, and hammered […]
Our peoples call it by various names: the path, going well through life, the Good Red Road — different means of describing the way of the hoop. It’s the way of our ancestors, given to us by the spirits, a sacred path that, if walked carefully, with a good heart and a strong spirit, will […]
It is the gravity of stars that move them through darkest skies and deepest space, holding the cosmos in place over time on an ephochal scale. With this classic pendant, a naja-like crescent reconceived for entire galaxies, Wings honors the stars, the forces that animate and move them, and the flowering fall of light the […]
In a sky filled with ancient lights, it is the sun that is our nearest star, the radiant orb that keeps our world alive. With this vintage-style pendant, Wings honors this animating force in both its identities: as central sun and older star, wrought in an old traditional style that pays tribute to the work […]
The monsoonal rains of summer animate new ripples, waves, and the splash and spray of drops from the sacred lake. With this pendant, Wings honors the cobalt blues of lake and sky and the fine droplets that rise from its storm-textured surface. The oval focal cabochon is formed of genuine Afghanistan royal lapis lazuli of […]
The peaks and waters of a rich green earth rest in the sky’s embrace. With this pendant, Wings calls to the dance the mountain and the seas, the medicine of petaled flowers and the blues of sky and storm. The work is built around a single spectacular focal cabochon of deep green chrysocolla, an unusual […]
In the desert, the greatest of gifts is sky medicine, bright blue to channel the light and webbed with clouds that hold the silvered rain. With this pendant, Wings pays tribute to the finest of blue desert skies even as he honors the blessings of the First Medicine. This simple, spare, elegant work is built […]
Dawn breaks through the the twilit-blue boughs of pine and fire, cedar and spruce, to dappling the mountains in the first forest light. With this pendant, Wings summons the blues of a boreal dawn to dance with the golden rutile of pine cones glowing in the newest sun. The focal cabochon, beautifully asymmetrical, is formed […]
In this dry alpine world, earth and sky daily deliver the dance of a desert sun, warm and radiant in all the shades of fire. With this pendant, Wings gives figurative form to the space where they meet to dance with the animating spirit of the light. The entire backing of the pendant is a single […]
An ancient spiral draws earth and sky, the four winds and the sacred directions, at once into its embrace. Wings summons the spirits of the vortex and their cosmic, timeless power into the spiral of this vintage-style pendant wrought of deer antler. The point is polished lightly, the spiral scorework carved entirely freehand in the […]
The earth’s green rebirth arrives on summer wings. With this pendant, Wings honors seasonal shift and spirit alike in the form of the very embodiment of summer transformation, the butterfly. Cut freehand from medium-gauge sterling silver, her body and wings are hand-milled in a shimmery leafy pattern. Her body is accented with three small round […]
The Water Bird is a spirit guide, sacred in the rites of the Tipi Way — a being known also as a Peyote Bird, for its role in the ceremonies of the Native American Church, also called the Red Road and the Peyote Way. It is one the symbols that speaks most deeply to Wings’s […]
In Native cultures, the cross is traditionally a symbol of the Four Sacred Directions, one that has been adopted and adapted in the face of invasion and colonization in ways that secure the future even as they honor the past. Wings reconceives the traditional Southwestern-style Native cross with this big bold pendant. Hand-cut of heavy […]
Like the first Warrior Woman, made for Wings’s mother in recognition of her great courage and strength, this one honors women’s power, with one small difference — this one is a pendant, rather than a pin. She bears symbols of healing and harmony: matched thunderhead symbols on her traditional dress, joined together to point toward […]
