I work in my shoppe in the high, wild mountains of New Mexico, in the American desert southwest. It is a place that has inspired me for the majority of my life, and it has not ever stopped. If anything, I become more enchanted with the magic and stories of the land as time goes by.

Everything I create comes from listening to what I find here living in the sky, and in what I have learned from nature and spirit.

The dirt has become part of me, and I of the dirt.

Here in this beautiful place, I like to make all sorts of things.

Spirit and heart guide my hands.

With them I create beaded jewelry, silversmith symbol and stone, knit and sew magical clothing, paint scenes of the worlds I see, take endless photographs, and I am always writing in a continual stream. I live for what inspires me to do these things.

I believe that when we make art a part of our lives, the energy that went into making the object can be passed on to whoever experiences it. In the case of LUMINO, this creates an aura of good feeling, and that is a great way to Be!

It is my highest joy to create what I can give to others.

Christi Pier

LUMINO Artist & Maker

I have stories to tell of things I have known
Saw and hammer, silver and stone

I make each piece by hand, with methods that have not changed much since the dawn of metalsmithing.

It is an old art, and I approach with honor my work in this tradition where so many craftspeople have forged before me.

Humans and rocks, plants, the dirt beneath our feet, we have all been together for a very long time. At some mysterious point back in the depths of our history, we began adorning ourselves with bits and pieces of what we would find during our travels about the land. Things we would hold dear because not only were they pretty, but they were sacred.

I believe we each hold a line to our past when we were deeply conscious of our kindred connection with the earth, the heavens, and everything around us. We feel a deep resonation of awe when we reconnect with this—whether climbing an alpine mountain peak, diving into an ocean, caught a little too close to a thunderstorm, riding a galloping horse across a meadow, relaxing next to a forest stream. In all of these things there is a moment where we feel that we are no longer separate from what is around us.

We say it's beautiful.

We feel free. 

We may need a reminder to be as fluid as water, the resolution to be as sturdy as earth, or the inner heat to be as bold as fire. Perhaps we feel more of a connection with one of these elements in our enchantment with the sea, or our primal passion for flames.

I am here to create jewels for you that can be a sort of bridge for the connection you seek.

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