NohoanuDecember 2023 Fine silver, vitreous enamel, almandine garnet, 22 karat green gold Nohoanu, the Hawaiian red cranesbill geranium, is a critically endangered flower that is endemic to Maui and only grows on the slopes of Haleakalthere are thought to be fewer than 30 plants surviving in the wild as of this writing. It is only appropriate that something so rare and threatened be rendered in something as delicate as glass. Nohoanu is recreated here in

a motif I had first used in a limited run of ner tamid pendants that are also made out of stone and silver from the ner tamid

田家 (Tián Jiā)

and since silk is a bit more luxe I chose to use it here

pseudomalachite

To represent shalom

729 carats total) in a never-ending spiral of sparkle

December 2010

because it can look blue-green by daylight or fluorescent light and purple or red by candlelight or incandescent light

no torch or bonding agent was used in the process

For our first anniversary I had decided to only use the material in question

Greater attention than ever before was being paid to the travesty of WWII Japanese interment camps

and were interested in somehow mixing the themes of love and death both in the message and the design