"Growth Is A Mystery"
A sacred love story
Boozhoo, hello! I consider it an honor to be able to share with you the love story of these rings, which I made of 14K white gold and 14K yellow gold. The smaller of the two rings shown features a beautiful natural emerald stone cut in a marquise brilliant shape. The rings - which serve as storytelling tools and are not for sale - tell a tale whose meaning, I believe, is deeply rooted in the collective memory and cultural consciousness of the people of my ancestors, the Ojibwe Anishinaabeg from the North American Great Lakes are.
It's not just a love story that I'd like to share with you; it's a SACRED love story, which I will tell again and again, in this blog and elsewhere, simply because it tells us so much about ourselves and where we came from...
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It's not just a love story that I'd like to share with you; it's a SACRED love story, which I will tell again and again, in this blog and elsewhere, simply because it tells us so much about ourselves and where we came from...
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About me and my sources of inspiration:
My name is Zhaawano Giizhik.
As an American artist and (non-commercial) jewelry designer currently living in the Netherlands. I like to draw on the oral and pictorial traditions of my Ojibwe Anishinaabe ancestors from the American Great Lakes area. For this I call on my manidoo-minjimandamowin, or "Spirit Memory"; which means I try to remember the knowledge and the lessons of my ancestors. The MAZINAAJIMOWINAN or ‘‘pictorial spirit writings’’ - which are rich with symbolism and have been painted throughout history on rocks and etched on other sacred items such as copper and slate, birch bark and animal hide - were a form of spiritual as well as educational communication that gave structure and meaning to the cosmos. Many of these sacred pictographs or petroforms – some of which are many, many generations old - hide in sacred locations where the manidoog (spirits) reside, particularly in those mystic places near the coastline where the sky, the earth, the water, the underground and the underwater meet.
My name is Zhaawano Giizhik.
As an American artist and (non-commercial) jewelry designer currently living in the Netherlands. I like to draw on the oral and pictorial traditions of my Ojibwe Anishinaabe ancestors from the American Great Lakes area. For this I call on my manidoo-minjimandamowin, or "Spirit Memory"; which means I try to remember the knowledge and the lessons of my ancestors. The MAZINAAJIMOWINAN or ‘‘pictorial spirit writings’’ - which are rich with symbolism and have been painted throughout history on rocks and etched on other sacred items such as copper and slate, birch bark and animal hide - were a form of spiritual as well as educational communication that gave structure and meaning to the cosmos. Many of these sacred pictographs or petroforms – some of which are many, many generations old - hide in sacred locations where the manidoog (spirits) reside, particularly in those mystic places near the coastline where the sky, the earth, the water, the underground and the underwater meet.
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