Geological genesis · 40 million years
Nephrite jade forms under extreme metamorphic conditions — 40 to 60 kilometres below the earth's surface, where temperatures exceed 500°C and tectonic forces compress the mineral lattice into fibrous interlocking crystals. This tremolite-actinolite seam was exhumed by glacial action approximately 12,000 years ago, surfacing near the Dease Lake region of British Columbia. The stone registers 6 to 6.5 on the Mohs scale. Its fibrous microstructure is what makes nephrite virtually impossible to shatter — it bends before it breaks. The carver read the internal fibre orientation before making a single mark.
British Columbia, Canada
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Jade Disc Pendant
Artisan intervention · 12 hours
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Cultural fragment
"The disc is the oldest argument that space can be held. Before writing, before the wheel — the circle was how the first hands said: this."
— Lục San, on disc geometry
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How it ages
The sterling silver bail will patinate toward warm grey over years of skin contact — first gold, then brown, then a deep pewter that is the colour of aged ocean. The jade, by contrast, brightens: the skin's natural lanolin gradually enriches its translucency, the stone becoming more itself with each year. They age in opposite directions. In twenty years, the pendant will look as though it was made for its wearer.
Materials present
Nephrite jade · Sterling silver
Object services
Structural integrity restored to original specification.
Form adapted to a new body, a new life.
The object reclaimed, its materials given another purpose.
Every object made in this studio carries a lifetime service commitment. The relationship does not end at the point of acquisition.