Bone Women Mini Collage painting Oxidized copper discs with iridescent

Oxidized copper discs with iridescent crystals

and black glass bead

~7"h x 7"w

These stones are so beautiful - there's so much depth and sparkle inside

Sterling necklace with triangular fire opal

Bone Women Mini Collage painting Oxidized copper discs with iridescentThroughout Iceland, cairns mark the way, over mountain passes, across the moonscape of the interior, through the frequent lava wastes. Travelers have used the paths for centuries. When a snowstorm overtook a wayfarer, a row of cairns could save a life. Cairns were sometimes called bone women, or beggar women.' Charles Fergus, Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge of the World 4" square mixed media collage on wood.