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“The Leap and the Lure”
This pendant was not made. It was become.
Fashioned with deliberate patience, this copper-wrapped Azurite-Malachite began its life as a raw fragment of earth — a jagged testimony to geological time. In my hands, I did not bend it into submission; rather, I listened. The stone whispered of oceans and oxidation, of pressure and persistence. And I wrapped it accordingly — not to restrain it, but to echo its wildness in copper's warm embrace.
The textures of blue and brown remind me of that summer when I was ten, standing on the edge of the edge of the cliff above bubbling sea and waves at Sveti Petar Peninsula in Makarska. The sun made salt of our skin, and laughter echoed like hymns along the cliff walls. Me and my cousins dared each other — "Jump!" — and I did. That moment before the leap, the shiver in your knees, the terror in your gut… and then the air, the flight, the impossible freedom. This piece carries that feeling. The tension between fear and beauty, the courage to move forward, even when nothing is certain.
There’s a coil in the wire that came unplanned. I left it. A slight error in curve, but perfect in truth. Because we are not machines. We are not gods. We are makers. And wearers.
To wear this pendant is not to adorn oneself with finery, but to carry a reminder — of earth, of ocean, of youth, of courage. It does not scream for attention. It murmur, and those who listen will know.
Would I sell it? Yes. But only to someone who knows the worth of silence and stone.
#rubiace #ballarat #ballaratartist #artisan #handcraftedjewellery #wirewrap #azuritemalachite #copperjewelry #wearableart #madeinaustralia #earthinspired
—R. A.
(ps. The stone is not from Makarska, but my memory… it is made of same salt.)
“The Leap and the Lure”
This pendant was not made. It was become.
Fashioned with deliberate patience, this copper-wrapped Azurite-Malachite began its life as a raw fragment of earth — a jagged testimony to geological time. In my hands, I did not bend it into submission; rather, I listened. The stone whispered of oceans and oxidation, of pressure and persistence. And I wrapped it accordingly — not to restrain it, but to echo its wildness in copper's warm embrace.
The textures of blue and brown remind me of that summer when I was ten, standing on the edge of the edge of the cliff above bubbling sea and waves at Sveti Petar Peninsula in Makarska. The sun made salt of our skin, and laughter echoed like hymns along the cliff walls. Me and my cousins dared each other — "Jump!" — and I did. That moment before the leap, the shiver in your knees, the terror in your gut… and then the air, the flight, the impossible freedom. This piece carries that feeling. The tension between fear and beauty, the courage to move forward, even when nothing is certain.
There’s a coil in the wire that came unplanned. I left it. A slight error in curve, but perfect in truth. Because we are not machines. We are not gods. We are makers. And wearers.
To wear this pendant is not to adorn oneself with finery, but to carry a reminder — of earth, of ocean, of youth, of courage. It does not scream for attention. It murmur, and those who listen will know.
Would I sell it? Yes. But only to someone who knows the worth of silence and stone.
#rubiace #ballarat #ballaratartist #artisan #handcraftedjewellery #wirewrap #azuritemalachite #copperjewelry #wearableart #madeinaustralia #earthinspired
—R. A.
(ps. The stone is not from Makarska, but my memory… it is made of same salt.)