Most of the year, our weather systems track across a predictable path, moving from southwest to northeast. In years past, this was almost a given.
Our world is different now.
The changes really began to make themselves known last year, although in truth, it’s been a gradual slide into a whole new existence, a few of the changes obvious, but most of them mostly imperceptible until now.
Among those changes is the direction of the storm.
Now, the rains come from all directions — from the four winds and the four corners of the sky.
With his newest work, completed only this afternoon, Wings evokes the path and pattern of the storm, thunder’s drum and lightning’s dance and the song of the silver rain. From its description in the Bracelets Gallery here on the site:
Storm-Webbed Sky Cuff Bracelet
In the monsoon season when the thunder rolls and the lightning flows, the rains fall from the four corners of the sky. Wings has captured season and sky in this elegantly spare cuff bracelet. The band, solid and substantial, is simplicity itself: formed of four heavy strands of sterling silver triangle wire soldered smoothly together, backed by sheet silver and given a soft Florentine finish, each strand flowing into the next like silvery rain falling from the Four Directions. The inner band is stamped with three scattered symbols: two sets of paired thunderheads, creating their own sacred space; and one Morning Star for guidance. Centered atop the band is a single slender cabochon of old natural spiderweb turquoise, delicate robin’s-egg blue webbed by crackling bolts of inky black matrix, set securely in a saw-toothed bezel and trimmed with twisted silver. The band is just shy of 3/4″ across; the setting is 1″ long by 1/2″ across; the visible portion of the stone is 7/8″ long by 3/8″ across (dimensions approximate). Side and inner band views shown at the link.
Sterling silver; old natural spiderweb turquoise
$925 + shipping, handling, and insurance
SOLD
The Skystone cabochon in this cuff is unique: The cut is unusual, the color delicate, the matrix mysterious . . . and the stone itself very, very old. It has been in his inventory of stones longer than I’ve known him, its origins now lost to memory and time. Its beauty is positively ethereal, a bit of the heavens themselves mid-storm, a reverse image of lightning crackling across the rectangular base of a thunderhead.
In this place where water is life, it’s like wearing the rain itself. More than that, it’s raw elemental power: wearing a bit of the storm-webbed sky, calling the rains from its four corners.
It’s wearing life itself.
~ Aji
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