Spirit Dance Adornments: Tree of Life by Copar Aingeal

Saturday, April 13, 2013

I really enjoy and admire the "Tree of Life" forms (most often created as pendants) but this one by Copar Aingeal and postedwww.jewelrylessons.com/copar-aingeal speaks to me most elegantly...the color, the use of metal and beads, the shape and the balance...

Talking Adornments

When your spirit speaks let it use the Adinkra language of the Akan people of West Africa. The Adinkra language is an ancient symbol system, today it is primarily found in Ghana. At Spirit Dance we have added a Diaspora element to the interpretation of the language. When creating our adornments we conceptualize each piece considering two methods of interpreting the symbolic representation of the Adinkra language. First, we employ the ideal of “Sankofa.” Like the mythical bird flying forward while looking back, we endeavor to fearlessly remember the siprit of the past while employing craft techniques of different times and different lands where the children of Africa have traveled and settled.

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Tree of Life by Copar Aingeal

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