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When we lived in Alaska, I was awe-struck by the intense and immense beauty that defines the state. Everything everywhere was magnified as the brightest, highest, deepest, and farthest, with nothing subtle or mundane in appearance or purpose. In an excerpt from one of my poems, "Northern Lights," I chronicle witnessing that spectacular, illuminating event.
“If color could be music, it was keys,
hammered, strings plucked
flashing and rolling
Fantasia/Close Encounters
style, in the brightest hues
for which there are no names.
And with no sounds but our own
the prisms spread
in some electro-magnetic
contagion—like wildfires
in the heavens
consuming packs of stars.”
Like the poem's imagery, my “Aurora Borealis Palace” collection alludes to the most majestic and exclusive of my jewelry designs. Not only are there lavish creations with stones such as amber, labradorite, amazonite, amethyst, chrysocolla, lapis, topaz, sapphire, and ruby, but I've also included the rarest of them all—the fossilized ammolite, whose brilliant flashes rival the crown jewels themselves!
And yes, like every work of art by “The King's Daughter,” these, too, are handcrafted and one-of-a-kind. Add components of sterling wire, beads, and chains, along with Silver Art Clay, which, when torched, becomes 99% silver, and the occasional shimmer of 22 or 24 karat gold paint, and you've got your own electrifying “aurora aura.”
