Journal
JOURNAL · FIELD NOTES
JOURNAL · FIELD NOTES
Journal
Notes from the studio. Rituals, materials, cosmology, process.
Diario de aprendiz
The Apprentice's Path
A maker's diary — the honest record of someone still learning the metal and the body. What the fire teaches, what gets ruined, what is understood too late.
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JOURNAL · HIDDEN SKY
World UFO Day — three ways to read the sky
Today the world looks up together. We mark World UFO Day the only honest way a maker rooted in the sky can — by keeping three registers apart: documented heritage, folklore, and our own fiction. What is remembered, what is told, and what we imagine.
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JOURNAL · RITUAL
Happy International Piercing Day
A day for everyone who has ever marked the body on purpose — from Jim Ward's first studio to our cosmic tribe. The piercing as a threshold, not a trend.
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JOURNAL · STYLING
Reading the body for adornment
Curation is the work of choosing well. We read the body, the placement, the moment.
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JOURNAL · CARE PRIMER
Aftercare: the first 90 days
Healing is a passage, not a deadline. The first 90 days set the next 90 years.
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JOURNAL · PROCESS
Casting the meteorite
A 4.5-billion-year-old fragment, a cast silver band, six weeks of patient work. Jimmy's craft, step by step.
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JOURNAL · ORIGIN STORY
Why we forge in Truckee
A small workshop, a high-altitude valley, a deliberate choice. The geography is not incidental.
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JOURNAL · COSMOLOGY
The four cardinal forces
In Mapuche cosmology, the four directions hold the world. We forge them into the body.
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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.
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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.
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JOURNAL · MATERIAL STORY
Wood as a body material
Walnut, sono wood, buffalo horn. Why organic materials stretch differently — and why that matters.
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