Blue Herons Necklace

One spring day I was walking along the creek that runs through our land in the early morning. My quiet meditations were shattered by a primordial scream as what appeared to be an extinct pierodactyl flew out from the brush near my feel. After swallowing my heart back to its normal position in my anatomy, I marveled at the magnetism of the fie foot high blue heron that had seemed a moment before to be twice my size. Soon after, a letter arrived from a medicine friend in Canada which read: "When you see a blue heron standing on both feet you are a person that knows truth." That same week I saw the blue heron standing by the lake and knew that I needed to honor this power with my art.

The need to make this jewelry piece was forgotten as, a few months later I was riding my Harley through the Canadian Rockies. It was the magical moment of twilight and I was thrilled to see an eagle sitting in her nest by the lake as a blue heron took flight from the bank of the lake and passed in front of me twenty feet in the air. A silvery transparent mystical curtain descended from the heron and hung suspended across the road as I rode my bike through it. As I tried to understand this cosmic event, I noticed that my bright red motorcycle and my black leathers were covered with heron droppings. Upon returning home, I promptly started work on the heron piece.

(24 k gold, electrum, silver, 22 k gold, aqua marine, rainbow moonstones, 1991.

In the collection of Olivia and George Harrison