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Road

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All roads lead home.

Road Ring.
Handmade with star ruby and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Bridge

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“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
— Rumi

Bridge Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Next Wednesday in my online shop.

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Arch

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“An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci

Arch Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Strength

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“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.”
— Oprah Winfrey

Strength Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Entry

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“One cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.”
— Paulo Coelho

Entry Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Grounded

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“True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.”
— Stephen Mitchell

Grounded Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Warmth

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“What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. ”
— Pema Chodron

Warmth Necklace.
Handmade with carnelian and recycled sterling silver.
This Thursday in my online shop.

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Currant

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“Desire makes everything blossom.”
— Marcel Proust

Currant Necklace.
Handmade with hessonite garnet and recycled sterling silver.
Next week in my online shop.

Birds

“I woke up this morning,
Smiled at the rising sun,
Three little birds,
Sat on my doorstep,
Singing sweet songs”
— Bob Marley

Bird Paintings.
Acrylic on paper.
7.87” by 10.47” (20 by 26.6 cm).

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Seedling

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“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”
— Alice Walker

Seedling Necklace.
Handmade with prehnite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

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Voice

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I am grateful that I get to express myself freely in this world. It is a privilege that the women in my family earned and I inherited.

Voice Necklace.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

Symbols

“Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.”
— Hermann Hesse

Symbol Paintings.
Acrylic on paper.
7.87” by 10.47” (20 by 26.6 cm).

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Marlies

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Meet Marlies Gelens. An artist and industrial designer who in 1999 migrated from The Netherlands to San Agustinillo, a tiny settlement on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Marlies and her (then) Dutch partner began to sell their homemade European-style bread to neighbors, and eventually set up the beloved restaurant, Apa Pan. Marlies remodeled the existing structure, designed the furniture, and baked the delicious bread that brought lines of grateful customers for years to come.

In 2016 Marlies left the coast and moved to San Sebastian Rio Hondo, a remote village on the Mountains of Oaxaca, to begin her dream of working with textiles. She had been making pillows with ribbon, but now she wanted to use cotton and wool to make ceremonial garments and work with local women. When she shared her vision with me last year, it became clear that she was the perfect person to inherit my mom’s textile raw materials.

As many of you know, my mother was an incredible textile artist. She was a master knitter who dyed her own yarns and designed one a of a kind sweaters. For decades, she worked with dozens of women from the neighboring towns to make fabulous knits that she would export to the United States, and sell in her boutique in the Bazaar Sábado, in Mexico City.

A year ago, as my mother struggled with the later stages of Alzheimer’s, I explained to her that her fabric, yarn, dyes, and tools would soon come into the hands of many women whose lives would be enriched by her gift. She understood, and was so excited that for months she kept asking about the beautiful dream of the women and the textiles.

Since then, Marlies continues to develop the vision and moving parts of her project. Here she is in Durango buying her first batch of merino wool from a local farmer. She will soon wash it and turn it into felted pieces, spun yarn and exquisite fabric.

The Setting Sun Necklace will ground and inspire her as she creates ceremonial attire for life’s most transcendent moments.

This was my mom at work, and some of her finished pieces.

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Rooted

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“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.”
— Eckhart Tolle

Rooted Necklace.
Handmade with amber, malachite and recycled sterling silver.
Available this Thursday in my online shop.

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Memory

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“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.”
— A. A. Milne

Memory Necklace.
Handmade with malachite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.

Holy

“For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.”
— Plato

Holy.
Acrylic and gouache on paper. 7.87” by 10.47” (20 by 26.6 cm).