Bracelet 1900 - 1910

This bracelet was crafted by a Navajo artist using silver and turquoise. I imagine it being slowly coaxed into being, hammered, and pressed, each mark a deliberate act, a kind of silent conversation between the artist and the metal. The patterns impressed into the silver make me think about how a repeated gesture can become a language. Each tiny indentation, each carefully placed line, communicates something beyond the purely decorative. The pale green turquoise set against the silver is like a quiet, hopeful promise. I think about the artist's hands, shaping and refining, how they coaxed this raw material into something that carries meaning, and beauty. It's a conversation across time, from their hands to ours. A reminder of our shared impulse to create and connect.