you are made of myth and matter. Wear what reminds you.
EMBODIED SYMBOLISM
Adornments shaped by hand, material, and story.
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Handcrafted in oxidized sterling silver on a 16 inch oxidized chain. A large, deeply flashy moonstone cabochon with blue violet and yellow shifting across its surface anchors the piece, and a smaller moonstone below it leads into a sterling serpent tied in an infinity loop. Pendant measures 3.5 inches long.
The infinity serpent is one of the oldest symbols we have, the ouroboros, the cycle that has no beginning and no end. Moonstone marks time differently than we do: by tide, by season, by the body's own rhythm. Together they ask the same question. What if you trusted the cycle completely?
One of a kind. Ready to ship. No beginning. No end.
Handcrafted in brass with sterling silver crescent moons and a rose-cut labradorite at the center. Its blue-green appears in a flash, unmistakable and vibrant. The cuff band measures 5.25 inch with a 1 inch opening.
Labradorite is a stone of inner knowing and the awareness that lights up the darkness. The eye that sees clearly, the discernment that protects without armor. For the one who trusts what she knows even when she can't explain it.
One of a kind. Ready to ship. The wise eye. Your own authority.
Handcrafted in sterling silver and brass, hanging from bronze hinged hoops. The Kingman Turquoise is from one of the oldest and most storied mines in the American Southwest and sits at the center of these 2.75 inch long earrings.
The axis mundi is the world's center point, the pole around which everything turns. These are for the person who knows how to find stillness inside the movement and dance around the center.
One of a kind. Ready to ship. The still point. Dance around the center.
Handcrafted in sterling silver and gold-fill with a Sonoran Gold turquoise cabochon. A wide band with a stamped sunburst rising above it like a horizon line. The patinated silver and gold makes this ring feel like a relic from a different time. Fits size 6–6.5.
Turquoise has been worn as armor and oracle across cultures for thousands of years. It is a stone that protects and orients simultaneously. This ring is for the one who knows her purpose and wears it visibly. Not a declaration. A fact, a relic, and a reminder.
One of a kind. Ready to ship. The horizon. I know why I'm here.
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Singular objects shaped by time, earth, and hand — created once, never repeated in the same way. Made for the moments when you recognize something of yourself reflected back.
Earth-inspired symbolic adornment rooted in the Pattern of Live
The Original Form Collection distills ancient archetypes and symbols into modern talismans. a small collection of favorite pieces that ground the body, speak to the psyche, and remind you of the deeper structures and patterns holding you steady. These items are made to order just for you.
You carry more than you know. Myth — the archetypal patterns that have moved through women for thousands of years, older than your name, larger than your story. And matter — the specific weight of the life you have actually lived. Your grief, your wildness, your longing to create. You didn't invent these. You inherited them. They run through you whether you name them or not.
Of Myth and Matter exists at the meeting place of those two things. Where ancient symbolism, natural materials, and human experience are shaped into objects meant to be lived with. Each piece is created slowly and intentionally, drawing from myth, ecology, and archetypal memory to support a deeper relationship between body, psyche, and the living world.
The work grew from a lifelong pull toward stone, metal, symbol, and story — and a belief that adornment can be more than decoration. I create one-of-a-kind and small-batch pieces using responsibly sourced materials, traditional metalsmithing techniques, and an intuitive design process guided by archetype, nature, and lived experience. The earth begins the story. I shape the middle. You complete it through how you live with the piece.
The forgetting is constant. The world is loud about who you should be. These pieces are made to bring you back — not to something idealized, but to something whole.
You are made of myth and matter. Wear what reminds you.
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About the Maker
I'm Keira. I work in the mountains of Montana, making symbolic adornment for those who know the world around them is alive and want to be in deeper relationship with it and with themselves. .
I began making jewelry in 2002, after being gifted a single stone — one I recognized immediately, with a certainty that bypassed reason. That moment didn't begin a hobby. It began a decades-long study of hand, fire, metal, story, and the particular intelligence that lives in natural materials. I am self-taught in the traditional sense: slowly, through repetition and failure, through the kind of learning that leaves marks.
I work with responsibly sourced materials — recycled metals, fair-trade suppliers, and whenever possible, directly with lapidary artists who share a relationship with the earth that goes beyond transaction. I care about where things come from. The geological and human stories embedded in materials are part of what makes the work alive.
Of Myth and Matter grew from a lifelong pull toward objects that carry meaning — and from a belief that adornment can be more than decoration. That what we choose to wear can remind us who we are. Not idealized. Not performing. Whole.
This brand is a relaunch and a reclamation. Formerly Keira Shine Jewelry, this work has deepened into something more fully itself: rooted in archetypal meaning, the living world, and the belief that sovereignty is not a destination but a daily practice of remembering.
The women I create for are reclaiming their own landscape. Some are in the quiet of a Descent—bearing the weight of grief, memory, or the slow, generative labor of an internal winter. Others stand at the Threshold, facing the friction of transformation and the sudden, sharp freedom of no longer needing to be who the world expected. For those moving into the expansion of an Emergence, these pieces signify the radiant work of building a life that reflects their depth. These artifacts are made to hold the center through every stage of the movement.
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