Waraa

(permanent collection)

The charm of antique jewels resides in their sparkling secret.

Inspired in the world of the Wayuu people, ancestral inhabitants of Colombia’s Guajira peninsula, this collection recalls the everyday, esthetic, and ritual importance that they place on jewels, as symbols of personal and family spiritual protection, and as objects of enormous value comprising part of their heritage. Waraa offers a new form of symbolic goldsmithing. Red gold, red carnelian, and recycled red coral provide a material and conceptual foundation; all three are ancestral elements sacred to the Wayuu people. The jewels in this collection are pure energy, warm and illuminating. Each piece holds a special significance related to the sun’s reflection on desert dunes, the cactus flower, and the beauty, wisdom, temperance, hard work, and concentration that this matriarchal tribal culture associates with our feminine side.

wa.an.1– Ma’a (The middle path), ring,
palladium sterling, 18 karat red gold

wa.an.2– Ma’a (Metaphor of the earth spinning in the space), ring,
18 karat red gold, recycled red coral

wa.an.3– Unu’u (Other desert iInhabitans), ring,
950 silver, 18 karat red gold plated, red cornelian

wa.an.4– Ishó (Comunication and strenght), ring,
18 karat red gold, red cornelian

wa.an.5– Ishó (Blood of life), ring,
18 karat red gold, red cornelian

wa.ar.1– Kaí-Kaí (Sun messenger), earrings,
18 karat red gold

wa.ar.2– Iwa (Spring blossoms), earrings,
18 karat red gold, recycled red coral

wa.ar.3– Joutai (Sculptor wind), earrings,
18 karat red gold

wa.ar.4– Süsii (Desert flowers), earrings,
18 karat red gold, recycled red coral

wa.ar.5– The middle path, earrings girl,
18 karat red gold, recycled red coral

wa.ar.6– Kaí-Kaí (Sun messenger), earrings
girl, 18 karat red gold

wa.co.2– Shimainkaluya (Heritage of gold and coral), necklace,
18 karat red gold, recycled red coral

wa.co.2– Shimainkaluya (Heritage of gold and coral), necklace,
18 karat red gold, recycled red coral

wa.co.1– Yonna (Gold joy and movements), necklace,
18 karat red gold, recycled red coral

wa.pu.1– Yonna (Gold joy and movements), bracelet,
18 karat red gold, recycled red coral

wa.di.1– Lanía (Magical protection charm),
pendant, 18 karat red gold, red cornelian

wa.pu.3– Awáyaja (Solar delusion), bracelet,
18 carat red gold, recycled red coral

wa.ba.1– Wararaat (The desert wisdom), cane of the “Word Giver”,
sterling, nazareno wood

wa.ba.2– Unu’u (Other desert inhabitans), cane,
sterling, cornelian, teak wood