The Full Story
This collection is born from relationship, land, and living tradition.
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The cacao pod at the heart of these pieces is hand-carved by Lacandona Maya artisans from Chiapas, Mexico. Their work begins not in a workshop, but in the rivers of their ancestral land, where green serpentine stone is gathered, stone shaped over time by water, movement, and earth.
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Each cacao pod is carved by hand, honoring cacao not as a symbol, but as a living presence, a plant that has nourished bodies, ceremonies, and communities for generations. The form you wear carries the memory of the river, the patience of the hands that shaped it, and the lineage of a people who continue to live in relationship with the land.
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These are not decorative objects.
They are ritual forms, shaped slowly, intentionally, and with respect.
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When you wear one of these pieces, you are not only wearing jewelry,
you are carrying ancestral memory, the quiet strength of the Lacandona Maya, and the enduring medicine of cacao as it flows from river, to hand, to heart.
serpentine
Serpentine is a green stone native to southern Mesoamerica and appears in the archaeological record from some of the earliest complex societies of the region. Its use is most notably documented among the Olmec, often considered a foundational civilization of Mesoamerica. At La Venta in present day Tabasco, archaeologists uncovered massive buried pavements composed of hundreds of carefully fitted serpentine blocks, dating to approximately 900 to 400 BCE. These pavements were intentionally placed beneath ceremonial platforms and covered, indicating they functioned as offerings to the earth rather than objects meant for public display.
Beyond architectural offerings, serpentine was also shaped into celts, axes, blades, beads, and small carved objects. Some of these tools show signs of practical use, while others appear to have served ceremonial or symbolic purposes connected to agriculture, ritual, and authority. Serpentine’s relative softness compared to jadeite made it workable with stone tools and suitable for both functional and ritual forms. It was not primarily a weapon stone, but a material associated with cultivation, land, and cosmological meaning.
Serpentine objects have also been found at other major Mesoamerican sites, including San Lorenzo and Teotihuacan, where it appears in masks, inlays, and ritual deposits. Across these cultures, green stone carried associations with water, fertility, vegetation, breath, and life force. While later Maya elites elevated jadeite as the royal stone, serpentine continued to hold significance as a stone of the land itself. Its use across architecture, ritual tools, and adornment situates serpentine as a material tied to origin, continuity, and ancestral memory rather than ornament alone.
handcrafted
Each piece is made slowly by hand,
honoring process, patience, and intention.
ancestral materials
Natural stones and elements rooted in land, lineage, and memory.
origin
Inspired by place, culture, and the ancestral paths that shape each form.
woman founded
Created through a woman led vision grounded in care, craft, and integrity.