#TBT: In Darkness and In Light, Fanning the Flames of Hope

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It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #TBT featured work that dates back only to the latter half of April of this year, and a special commission from a dear friend. It's a hair cuff set with a stone named for the Sacred White Buffalo of prophecy, a reminder that in darkness and in light, fanning the flames of hope is our obligation to the world, and to future generations.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. This work will never be duplicated exactly, but if the style or stone speaks to your spirit, simply inquire via the site's Contact form; Wings can create a version uniquely your own.  We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins  with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Day and Night Both Tend the Sacred Flame

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for hope in this summer of extreme heat and drought, one for the work of searching for the sacred that is required of us now. It's an old-style tile collar necklace, updated in Wings's distinctive style, its blend of black and white reminding us that day and night both tend the sacred flame, and we must do the same.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Red Willow Spirit: Light's Fire, Dark's Shadow

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the work of surviving a summer season partially returned to us, yet more extreme than ever. It's two images linked by a single work of wearable art, all of them capturing the haunting beauty and raw power of an ancient world of light's fire, dark's shadow, and time's whirlwind.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Monday Photo Meditation: From Fire and Time Come Fragments In Black and White

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for one of the flame-tempered arts of the summer season, and for its timeless gifts that last centuries, even millennia. It's an image that Wings took deliberately some dozen years ago for illustrative purposes, of ancient pottery sherds from his private collection and the truth that from fire and time come fragments in black and white.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Of Dark and Light and the Flames of Night

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the lights of summer, for the little fires in the dark that keep us safely on the proper path. It's a pair of old-style loop earrings, a traditional design rendered in unusual materials that embody the gifts of our post-sunset world, of dark and light and the flames of night.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Rain Is Where Earth Meets Sky

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the return of real summer, which here is defined as the rainy season. It's a pair of earrings wrought in an old traditional style updated for contemporary wear, perfect for the truth manifest here today that rain is where earth meets sky.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Friday Feature: The Spirits of a More Ancient Sky

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It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a pair of works that capture the beauty and power of this ancient land, and its resilience too. It's two necklaces wrought in traditional styles but updated with unusual elements, both of them infused with the spirits of a more ancient sky, and of the land and waters and light, as well.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

#ThrowbackThursday: The Day's Blue Sky Births the Stars of Night

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

 

It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #ThrowbackThursday featured work that dates back some fifteen years, to September's end in 2011, a pair of earrings wrought in an old traditional style. These are, as always with Wings's work, layered with additional meaning, manifest as the truth that the day's blue sky births the stars of night.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. This work will never be duplicated exactly, but if the style or stone speaks to your spirit, simply inquire via the site's Contact form; Wings can create a version uniquely your own.  We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins  with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Ours Is a Blue Sky Born of Sun and Stardust

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's Wings's newest masterwork, an extraordinary cuff built around similarly phenomenal materials. It's a beautifully sculptural piece set with a Skystone and vintage glass, embodying the truth that ours is a blue sky born of sun and stardust.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Red Willow Spirit: The Light That Storm and Sky Create

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for what should be a season of an earth made lush by water from the sky. It's two nearly-identical, yet very different images linked by a single newish work of wearable art, all of them emblematic of the light that storm and sky create.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Monday Photo Meditation: The Ethereal Light of the Post-Storm Sky

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the season we are yet denied, for its absent medicine and for what we should seek in its place. It's an image that dates back only to the final day of June, one to remind us to acknowledge, honor, and seek guidance from the ethereal light of the post-storm sky.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

A Sky For the Sun and the Rain

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the summer monsoons, and for the truth of the old Skystone story, that the sky sheds a single tear, and it becomes the rain. It's a pendant set with a truly extraordinary specimen of bright blue spiderwebbed turquoise, the very embodiment of a sky for the sun and the rain simultaneously.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

The Green of a Rich and Healthy Earth

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work to embody a powerful spirit, and for the truth that Eagle carries the medicine of earth and sky. And this work is the great raptor as you've never seen him before, a tangible reminder to us to call upon Eagle's medicine in the work of restoring and renewing the green of a rich and healthy earth.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Friday Feature: Summer's Green Geometry

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It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a pair of works created independently of each other that very clearly seems to be meant for each other. It's a necklace and a cuff bracelet, both built around rich specimens of malachite, each embodying a different aspect of summer's green geometry.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

#TBT: The Green Spiral of Summer

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #TBT featured work that dates back to around 2010, if memory serves, one in Wings's informal series of early wrap rings. It's one set with a pair of richly-hued malachite cabochons, perfect for this time of year, at the very heart of the green spiral of summer.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. This work will never be duplicated exactly, but if the style or stone speaks to your spirit, simply inquire via the site's Contact form; Wings can create a version uniquely your own.  We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins  with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Born of Fire and Water, a Rich Green World

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork by any measure, one for elemental powers and ancestral spirits, and a world emerged from ancient fires. It's a necklace built around old, old sherds from Wings's private collection, bisected by a phenomenal dagger of orbicular malachite, a figurative work to embody this land born of fire and water, a rich green world that might just still thrive.  

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

 

Red Willow Spirit: The Lush Green Lands of the Summer Rains

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the rainy heart of summer here, and for the monsoonal patterns so long absent that, at least for today, have returned. It's two related images linked by a single work of wearable art, all of them manifest in the shades and spirits of the lush green lands of the summer rains.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

 

Monday Photo Meditation: The Green That Grows Where the Water Flows

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved,

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for what should be the very heart of summer now but is instead its opposite. It's an image from some two decades ago, when the green that grows where the water flows was the hallmark of this season, lush and fertile and abundant.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

A Time of Green In Leaf and Flower

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for this season when the desert flowers dance, for the earthy abundance of summer as it should be. It's a personal favorite, a pair of earrings set with beautifully silken jasper and banded malachite, perfect for a time of green in leaf and flower.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Petals and Flames In Summer's Dance

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the sundancing activities of our nearest star, and for the flowers that still thrive in its light. It's a pair of earrings in fiery shades, each drop set with five stones and overlaid with ten individual sunbursts, together a manifestation of the petals and flames in summer's dance.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.