JOURNAL · FIELD NOTES

Journal

Notes from the studio. Rituals, materials, cosmology, process.

• JOURNAL · STYLING

  Reading the body for adornment

  Curation is the work of choosing well. We read the body, the placement, the moment.

  June 18, 2026 · 626 words

• JOURNAL · CARE PRIMER

  Aftercare: the first 90 days

  Healing is a passage, not a deadline. The first 90 days set the next 90 years.

  June 11, 2026 · 690 words

• JOURNAL · PROCESS

  Forging the meteorite

  A 4.5-billion-year-old fragment, a silver setting, six weeks of patient work. The craft step by step.

  June 4, 2026 · 824 words

• JOURNAL · ORIGIN STORY

  Why we forge in Truckee

  A small workshop, a high-altitude valley, a deliberate choice. The geography is not incidental.

  May 28, 2026 · 650 words

• JOURNAL · COSMOLOGY

  The four cardinal forces

  In Mapuche cosmology, the four directions hold the world. We forge them into the body.

  May 21, 2026 · 684 words

• JOURNAL · CULTURE

  The witral thread

  Why a Mapuche loom geometry ends up on a body-jewelry piece — and what we are quoting when we use it.

  May 19, 2026 · 612 words

• JOURNAL · MATERIAL STORY

  What is Vacamuerta meteorite?

  Cosmic fragments that fell in Chile's Atacama Desert. We work them into rings, amulets and signature pieces.

  May 14, 2026 · 720 words

• JOURNAL · MATERIAL STORY

  Wood as a body material

  Walnut, sono wood, buffalo horn. Why organic materials stretch differently — and why that matters.

  May 14, 2026 · 780 words