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Title: “Where Copper Meets the Quiet Heart of Stone”
Some pieces are not born from craft, but from memory—those slow-burning recollections that smoulder beneath consciousness, shaping hand long before the wire is touched.
This pendant began decades ago, among the dense pine forests near Makarska, where my childhood unfolded in uneasy solitude. I was girl of keen intellect and awkward bearing, devouring every book in the town library by the time I reached my teenage years. Words became my refuge, knowledge my homeland. Where others thrived in the unruly play of childhood, I inhabited a quieter world, vast and interior.
Within the confines of school, I was acknowledged—beyond it, I passed unnoticed, a shadow at the edge of the crowd. Other children forgot me the moment the classroom emptied, as though my presence were conditional on utility.
Rather than resist invisibility, I walked into it. The forest became my sanctuary. Beneath tall pines, slingshot in hand, I hunted not creatures but enchantments—fairies glimpsed through sunlit mist, goblins hiding behind lichen-covered stones, dragons sleeping just beneath the earth. The skeletal remains of German soldier from WWII that was killed by partisans left silence in its wake, and in that silence, imagination bloomed.
This pendant holds that world—not just its memory, but its texture. The opaque Australian chrysoprase is a stone of thresholds: half earth, half sea, neither yielding nor boastful. Copper winds around it with deliberate asymmetry, not to bind but to accompany. Each spiral carries the weight of remembered footfalls, each contour echoes the winding path of thought.
This is not an ornament but a witness—meant for the wearer who has dwelled in interior spaces, who has known the ache of being unseen and the resilience of beauty formed in solitude.
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Title: “Where Copper Meets the Quiet Heart of Stone”
Some pieces are not born from craft, but from memory—those slow-burning recollections that smoulder beneath consciousness, shaping hand long before the wire is touched.
This pendant began decades ago, among the dense pine forests near Makarska, where my childhood unfolded in uneasy solitude. I was girl of keen intellect and awkward bearing, devouring every book in the town library by the time I reached my teenage years. Words became my refuge, knowledge my homeland. Where others thrived in the unruly play of childhood, I inhabited a quieter world, vast and interior.
Within the confines of school, I was acknowledged—beyond it, I passed unnoticed, a shadow at the edge of the crowd. Other children forgot me the moment the classroom emptied, as though my presence were conditional on utility.
Rather than resist invisibility, I walked into it. The forest became my sanctuary. Beneath tall pines, slingshot in hand, I hunted not creatures but enchantments—fairies glimpsed through sunlit mist, goblins hiding behind lichen-covered stones, dragons sleeping just beneath the earth. The skeletal remains of German soldier from WWII that was killed by partisans left silence in its wake, and in that silence, imagination bloomed.
This pendant holds that world—not just its memory, but its texture. The opaque Australian chrysoprase is a stone of thresholds: half earth, half sea, neither yielding nor boastful. Copper winds around it with deliberate asymmetry, not to bind but to accompany. Each spiral carries the weight of remembered footfalls, each contour echoes the winding path of thought.
This is not an ornament but a witness—meant for the wearer who has dwelled in interior spaces, who has known the ache of being unseen and the resilience of beauty formed in solitude.
🟤✨🌿
#rubiace #ballarat #ballaratartist #artisan #wirewrappedjewelry #coppercraft #australianstones #chrysoprase #earthytone #makerslife #handmadewithsoul #slowmade #wireart