Hold a clear quartz sphere up to a window.
Look through it, not at it. Let your eye travel into the interior of the stone rather than stopping at the surface.
What you will find there is not nothing. Clear quartz, despite the word clear, is not empty. Inside, there are inclusions — wisps of white mineral suspended in the crystal, hairline fractures that caught light during formation and kept it, voids where a gas bubble or a drop of fluid was sealed inside as the stone grew around it. Each inclusion is a record of the exact moment and condition of the stone’s formation, millions of years ago, in a specific place inside the earth.
When you hold this sphere up to the light and look through it, you are looking at a private archive. A cosmology contained in something small enough to hold in one hand.
This pendant holds that sphere — a large natural clear quartz, selected for the quality and character of its internal world — on a hand-braided cord of warm gold and red and blue. Multiple threads wound together, the braid wide and present, with a traditional Chinese knot setting the stone at the base. The cord is adjustable; the stone can rest wherever you want it.
Clear quartz is the most abundant crystalline mineral on Earth. It forms wherever silicon and oxygen are present together under the right conditions — which is to say, in an extraordinary range of geological environments, on every continent, in almost every rock type. This ubiquity is not without meaning: quartz is also one of the most piezoelectric materials known, meaning it generates and responds to electrical charge under mechanical stress. It is used in every quartz clock, in all ultrasound equipment, in the oscillators that make digital communication possible.
The same stone that humans have carried for thousands of years as a symbol of clarity and amplified intention is also the stone that makes your watch accurate and your phone work.
The modern and the ancient are not as separate as they appear.
Natural clear quartz sphere, hand-braided adjustable cord in gold, red, and blue. Traditional knot setting. Sphere approximately 22mm.
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