“We are born of love. Love is our mother.”
Mother Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Soar
“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams”
Elevated Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Offering
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”
Offering Ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Connection
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship”
Connection Ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Substance
“I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in”
Substance Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Horizon
“We must dream our way”
Horizon Ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Water
“Be like water, my friend.
You shall find a way around, or through it.
When nothing within us stays rigid,
We decide the shape we’re in.
Empty your mind.
Be shapeless, formless; like water.
It can flow or it can crash.
And we design the waves we give”
Water Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Open
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open”
Open Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Natural
“To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature”
Natural Ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Held
“Hold on to your heart
Hold it high above flood waters
Hold on to your heart
Never let nobody drag it under
Hold on to your heart
Even when your body’s bitter
Hold on to your heart
Never let nobody take it over
Ever take it over
Ever take it over from you”
Held Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Helm
“Always do whatever’s next”
Helm Ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Quietude
“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather”
Quietude Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Atypical
“Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?”
Atypical earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Exploration
“Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.
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Exploration Pendant.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Expansive
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.”
Expansive Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Layered
I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
to proceed on my journey,
I see the milestones dwindling
toward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
Oh, I have made myself a tribe
out of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
"Live in the layers,
not on the litter."
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes.
–Stanley Kunitz (The Layers)
Layered earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Beetle
My friend Maria gave me the creative challenge of turning my Beetle drawing into a pendant. This is the result.
Renewal
Every now and then a new element appears in our life. It could be a place, a friend, a book, or a gemstone. Something that sparks new joy and makes us see life in a different way. These are treasures. They awaken a part of ourselves that had not been seen, heard or acknowledged. Amplified and expanded, we are no longer the same.
Renewal Ring.
Handmade with garnet and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Portal
“Enter with love the temple that is your own heart.”
Portal Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Cycles
Over a decade ago, I traveled to Taxco to shop for silver jewelry.
Located three hours southwest of Mexico City, Taxco was the most important silver mining center during the Spanish conquest. After centuries of intense extraction, silver and mining activities dwindled, but in the 1940’s William Spratling, a New York architect and promoter of muralist Diego Rivera, moved to Taxco and brought new life to the town. He commissioned local silversmiths to produce his designs, and when his business took off, he trained more people, until most of the local families learnt the craft. Spratling inspired artisans to explore traditional motifs from their ancient past, instead of relying on European designs.
When I visited Taxco, Spratling's design influence seemed long gone. Most of the stores sold copies of Tous, Tiffany, and cheap designs from China. I had trained as a ceramist, printmaker and painter, and was surprised to see a lack of creativity among so many skilled artisans.
It had been difficult for me to imagine my place in the world as an artist, because everything I saw in museums, galleries and books seemed impossible to improve, but here was a niche open for exploration. Art, for me, must come from the depths of human imagination. I knew that learning to work with metal would take time, but I was already rich with ideas.
Cycles Ring.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.