Kuriosities

Keyhole Pendant #3: Safety and Vulnerability: Further study in themes of loneliness and isolation. A whimsical keyhole, could it lead to someplace enchanted? To an inner dreaming? Three labradorite wishing stones adorn an antique skeleton key. And yet the keyhole is darkened, and what lies on the other side remains hidden, and inaccessible.

Etched sterling silver keyhole plate (original hand drawn design, chemically etched), riveted to backplate and then oxidized. Labradorite gemstones, Antique skeleton key. Sterling chain.

Safety and Vulnerability

I have tread here before
though winds have blown the dust of my footprints
eroded the valleys of my passage
and new grasses, and small trees have taken root
the message the wind carries still whispers
the same.

and if I were to lead you here
the quiet spaces where the breath escapes
then gently fills, renews
if I were to lead you here, this landscape
where my soul tangles in the bare branches
is carried like a ribbon on the breeze-
what mark would you bring?

How deep would your toes reach
to place themselves in these sands,
how careful would they gage their landing?
And could the hieroglyphics of their departure
map my way back to where you stand?