The second pair is called "Chrysalis Sun": wingssilverwork.com/chrysalis-su.... Sterling silver; amber.
The frames are saw-cut and stamped freehand, front and back. The sunbursts at the top are hand-made of sterling silver ingot, and those stones look like molten teardrops.
It's called "Raining Sun," meant both literally and metaphorically: wingssilverwork.com/raining-sun-.... Sterling silver; Russian simbircite.
The two works of wearable art are manifest in the amber and silver of the images; both are pairs of earrings in similar shades. The first is extraordinary; its name suits the season's animating spirit, too.
And, of course, it's the shadows that show us ways into new worlds, that first one on the entry to the church courtyard visible only for a brief moment, and of course Wings was there and aware to catch it.
The red-gold earth of the village homes and walls is not far different from that in the burn scars on the background slopes, a rich contrast with their evergreen blanket.
The three images shown here today were all taken from roughly the same vantage point [in front of our old gallery] mere moments apart. They all show the plaza and season at its finest: sky a flawless blue, air impossibly clear, leaves golden amber in the light.
I think I misspoke yesterday and said that they were shot in digital format; force of habit, given how many that I've posted recently were. This group, though, Wings shot on film, all of them on the same late-October afternoon twelve years ago, in 2012.
This week's edition consists of three images linked by two works of wearable art from the same category. The photos are from the same small series-within-a-series as the one that was the subject of yesterday's photo meditation.
Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the first day of October, and for settling into the patterns of fall in this place: wingssilverwork.com/red-willow-s....
October first.