The Cottonwoods have long been associated with the Rio Grande along whose banks the tall trees flourish. They flower in the spring as the river floods its banks and their leaves come out in the heat of summer. The leaves have a unique flash and shimmer in the cool breezes that run along the life giving river.
1 1/2” wide, 4” drop, sterling silver findings
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OROPOPO is a husband and wife duo who make jewelry and leather objects in their New Mexico studio drawing from the iconography of the American Southwest.
Karole's professional background is in architecture and structural engineering. The Oropopo name is from her birthplace on the coast of Venezuela. Grady is a native of New Mexico, a writer, and literary editor; he has specialized in desert literature and its aesthetics. Together, they refine a narrative that associates site and culture with contemporary technology.
We have our own relationship to the land and culture and those indefinable qualities that are New Mexico and the Southwest.
If we share anything with the creative work done in this region for thousands of years it would be the tradition of artists trying to make beautiful things that convey a sense of the time and place we inhabit.