We are kept grounded by the movement of the earth, a tectonic shift of epochal proportions that creates the world in which live, and teaches us humility via lessons of scale of time. Wings evokes this seismic process with a coil centered around the children of fire: an expanse of seven ovaled barrel beads formed of volcanic lava rock, tapered at either end and softly polished. At either end, separated by bits of water and sky in the form of bold polished chips of bright Sleeping Beauty turquoise, they eventually flow into a harder kind of earth, small round spheres of jet-black onyx lightly polished to a Florentine-like finish. Again, water and sky intervene to separate the land masses and the atmosphere; then, the trees arise, represented by short round barrel beads of polished red-brown wood. Each length of wood ends in a short strand of Skystone, bright blue nuggets above a more ancient earth at the ends: Each end is anchored by seven small doughnut-shaped rondels of fossilized dinosaur bone, bits of spirits so ancient as to render us instantly humble by comparison to the sheer longevity of their timeless legacy. Beads are strung on memory wire, which expands and contracts to fit virtually any wrist. Another view shown below. Designed jointly by Wings and Aji.
Memory wire; basaltic lava rock; onyx; Sleeping Beauty turquoise; polished wood; fossilized dinosaur bone
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