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before firing...carving her braids
bronze goddess pendant
bronze goddess earrings with white topaz
'on my eyelids a prayer' series
"human beings are born with different capacities, if they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
'goddess series'
'goddess series'
'spiral love'
'goddess series'
'on my eyelids a prayer' series
'goddess series'
'goddess series'
'spiral love'
'afro goddess series'
'goddess series'
bronze and turquoise pendant
jade shanti wearing nature's best gift
sculpture in progress
requel wearing a bronze and sterling silver bracelet from the real woman series
sterling silver and turquoise ring
zillions and zillions of stack rings..
simone wearing her hammered heart bracelet...today she's a sailor or a nuclear physicist...
did someone say stack rings? an amazing amount of bullet stones that i'm thoughtfully using up till my stash is done....feed your fingers
plantains.....barbara wearing her heart link bracelet
the last of these that i made i sold right off my wrist to sisters who said that the (tinkling) sounds of my bracelets reminded them of their mother...i was touched seeing the light in their eyes and to hear their laughter as they shared sacred memories of these tinkling sounds...now, happy to make more as, my wrists miss the heavy clink of these gems
crispy wearing her sterling silver cafe au lait pendant
love these heavy sterling silver clinking bangles....
sterling silver bangles
skull...work in progress
larry wearing his custom made cuff bracelet
amy wearing her senufo bird earrings
soon you will have forgotten all things and soon all things will have forgotten you...marcus aralius
belinda wearing a pair of awesome badass sterling silver earrings
senufo bird earrings...hammered sterling silver...see Amy above!
john wearing his custom made bracelet...sterling silver
carved tagua
bronze and sterling silver goddess earrings
sterling silver bracelet links
lisa wearing her sterling silver and Chrysocolla necklace...one of her many one of a kind necklaces.... I love you!
she's wearing one of my goddess earrings made of fine silver
sterling silver and chrysocolla necklace
sterling silver bangles
kym wearing her goddess pendant
sterling silver and semi precious stone stack rings
carved tagua pendant
goddess series....bronze earrings
sterling silver and bronze ring
ronald wearing his custom made necklace...sterling silver
belinda pearl wearing sterling silver hoops
sterling silver and turquoise stack rings
goddess series...sterling silver and patina'd bronze ring
the extraordinary marshy ground of who and what an artist is....is simply somebody who helps you see reality again..james baldwin
sterling earring
father and son wearing their custom made rings
paolo wearing his oval link bracelet
love
bronze ring
every tear on every face tastes the same....mavis staples/you are not alone
sue wearing her signature style...never a pair!
“however vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” stanley kubrick
early 90's studio days on south beach...photo by jose paz
colors are the deeds and sufferings of light...goethe
from the bronzed goddess series
The most common greeting in the Zulu tribe is Sawubona. It literally means “I see you, you are important to me and I value you”. It's a way to make the other person visible and to accept them as they are with their virtues, nuances, and flaws.
real woman series pendants...sterling silver
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Toni Morrison
mahogany seed pod.... my first carving material... south florida has magnificent old trees with seed pods as dreamy and beautiful as the wood, used and cherished by artisans all over the globe.
sterling silver real woman series earrings
real woman fine silver pendant
bracelet of carved tagua, fine silver and antique glass beads
front: carved teak wood hair comb
necklace commissioned by an author for a giveaway to one lucky reader when her book launched...the main character wore a necklace with tiny wire wrapped precious stones about 80 inches long!
back of the carved hair comb: Haiku by Kalamu ya Salaam
once upon a time...in a land far far away (south beach, florida)...i was commissioned to make 5 pieces for the absolut ad/art campaign...
real woman fine silver pendant
one
tops of ring stands
two
fine silver with 23K Gold and leather bracelet
three
four
sterling silver earrings
fine silver earrings
five
i found god in myself and i loved her, i loved her fiercely” Ntozake Shange

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"That’s the trouble with people, their root problem.
Life runs alongside them, unseen.
Right here, right next.
Creating the soil.
Cycling water.
Trading in nutrients.
Making weather.
Building atmosphere.
Feeding and curing and sheltering more kinds of creatures than people know how to count.
A chorus of living wood sings to the woman:
If your mind were only a slightly greener thing,
we’d drown you in meaning."


from the overstory
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