The Work of My Heart

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I know that all of the pieces I've been tucking under my palms over the last few weeks

have been coming from a place of healing

And I know this because I feel bolstered by them, fed by them.

They are surely the work of my hands, but the impetus has come from the heart.

In this collection there will be a celebration of our little boy's namesake

constellation and that celestial body's role in my childhood

But there is also a reverence for ghosts and longing in these pieces...

In Hawaii the wall of maidenhair ferns outside of a lava tube arrested my attention for far longer than the main attraction itself: I was so amazed by their tenacity, clinging to a sheer-looking rock face,

the young tender green ferns living side by side with the white

ghosts of plants previously thriving

empty of chlorophyll

and simply beautiful in their starkness...

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We live with our dead, too, just not in the same way.

These pieces that feature the white ghost ferns

are an homage to those we've loved

both living and gone.

There will be two half-belts

one raw-edged golden deerskin bag with mandalas on both sides

three or four pairs of earrings

and a necklace.

I hope to show them to you finished on Thursday

afternoon.

If you feel that any of these pieces resonate with you,

please convo me

to receive the details of their cost, measurement and feel.

I wish you all a calm, gorgeous day here on earth.

xoxox,

Allison