NewaApril 2025 Koaia I had a beautiful piece of koaia left over from another project, and I wanted to do something with it that highlighted the exceptional curl and chatoyance of the wood. Frequently misidentified as chocolate koa, koaia is a separate but also endemic Hawaiian acacia species. Besides the intense deep color of the wood, it differs from its sister species in its shorter height, lowland habitat and extreme density. Koaia is so dense that it

I sourced as eco-friendly materials for the ner tamid as possible

which by itself represents שדי (Shaddai

or “aim high to reach the heavens” was written in giant calligraphy by Sun in his honor

But when he marries her

and Variation II was done with reticulated silver on the Hebrew letters

And it wasn't lost on me that I had finally gathered all of the materials needed to finish this pendant this harvest season

a traditional crescent-moon Chamorro pendant that was typically made of shell

This seemed an apt description of how my friend and his wife have built their relationship

the grooves in the ring align with the positions and angles where the roads enter the circle on the map

not months or years)

-Genesis 1:3

Not a common jewelry material