Faith

Posted on Instagram on November 16, 2019

I have to have faith that this shadow has a meaning and a purpose.
That I can lean into it, soften, allow its essence to work on my soul as it's needed.
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I keep looking at the seeds.
Tiny miracles tucked in darkness, willingness to break and push in order to expand.
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So I take the metal and create a small womb. I tuck a marigold seed in it, and a dried petal.
Marigolds that are bright and cheerful, resilient creatures who never worry about taking up more space.
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I make a little prayer-talisman as a compass to promise a way.
Because right now, I don't know which way is up.
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Copper, silver and brass with a glass dome.

I pray to the leaves

Posted on Instagram on November 14, 2019

I pray to the leaves
To teach me how to meet the fall
Without clinging to the branch.
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These are ear jackets - and you have to forgive me here, I still suck at selfies and the third picture, which is supposed to give you a clue about how they look when worn, is not my best ever.
I should probably buy one of these fake ear things that @sticksandstonessf uses 🤔
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This morning I was looking at the fallen leaves, and the graceful dance that is their fall.
Can we learn that luminous surrender for ourselves?
I wonder what it feels like, to soften and let go. To release clutched hands and stuck rib cages, and, in a beautiful swoosh, allow life to bring us where she wants to.
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I am not often that brave.
So I keep praying the trees and the leaves to show and teach me.
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Earrings with ear jackets, one of a kind in labradorite, fine and sterling silver.

Surrendering to the shadows

Posted on Instagram on November 14, 2019

Surrendering to the shadows that populate our inner world.
Giving up the fight and accepting to feel what is uneasy and unknown.
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To plant a seed is an act of faith. To take something so small, give it to the darkness, and to know it will eventually be broken in order to become more.
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This pendant embodies all my current adventures in the land of grief, both the times when I try to be brave and allow myself to sink into my own darkness and listen to it, and the times I grasp for a splinter of hope and try to escape the uncomfortable feelings.
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It is a very tactile pendant, almost a pebble, with its domed back.
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The stone is a smoky quartz with an abalone shell below it.
It's a metaphor of the dark inner sea and its depths...and the treasures it hides.
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I tucked marigold seeds below the stones, as a prayer to breaking and unfolding and becoming the bigger version of ourselves.
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May we learn to dive into our deep waters. May we have eyes that see the beauty in them.
May we have the courage to be fertile seeds.

I Hold My Magic

Posted on Instagram on November 7, 2019

Hands have always had a lot of meanings for me, and I have always been fascinated by them.
From Mudras to the grace of the hands painted by Sargent, through ex-voto, and my own representations of them in my drawings and, after, in my jewelry.
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One of the main meanings I attribute to them is the feeling of being held, being safe. The earrings I made that I wear the most are pink tourmalines with hands dangling from them.
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This hand here is in a way part of my family of hands, if I can call it this way.
First came the "hold my hand", bigger hands, easy to reach and hold in times when you need comfort.
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This hand here belongs to a different stream. This hand holds something.
It's part of what I hope will become a line of hands, each holding a different meaning.
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In this case, it's an affirmation, a recognition of the magic we carry inside. It's opening our eyes to it, saying it out loud, and, by doing this, using it more.
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It's made from my original using the sand casting technique. I get a very rough shape from it, so that then I have to put a lot of work in shaping each finger and "posing" it - which is what I want, because I want each one to be unique.
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This one is a silver and copper alloy, with a light pink tint, and sterling and fine silver accents.
It holds a labradorite, the stone of magic.

Singing the Bones

Posted on Instagram on November 1, 2019

Today
I made earrings
For our Ancestors.
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With bones carved from fused sterling silver and two faceted Moonstones.