Nicola St John

handmade jewelry designed and made in Melbourne

Chalcedony, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ‘Every space is filled, every interstice occupied. Even metal has insinuated itself into the cells and channels from which life has long since disappeared. Compact and insensible matter has replaced the other kind in its last refuge, taking over its exact shapes, running in its finest channels, so that the first image is set down forever in the great album of the ages.’ The Writing of Stones by Roger Caillois (L’ecriture des pierres, 1970). 

Chalcedony, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

‘Every space is filled, every interstice occupied. Even metal has insinuated itself into the cells and channels from which life has long since disappeared. Compact and insensible matter has replaced the other kind in its last refuge, taking over its exact shapes, running in its finest channels, so that the first image is set down forever in the great album of the ages.’

The Writing of Stones by Roger Caillois (L’ecriture des pierres, 1970). 

“A multitude of new inscriptions is added to the writing in stones. A sea lily sways on its stem in the heart of a piece of slate. The scrolls and laces of ferns are imprinted in coal. Ammonites of all sizes, from a lentil to a millwheel, flaunt their cosmic spirals everywhere. A fossil trunk, turned jasper and opal like a frozen fire, clothes itself in scarlet, purple, violet. Dinosaurs’ bones change their petit-point tapestries into ivory, gleaming pink or blue like sugared almonds.”
—   The Writing of Stones by Roger Caillois (L’ecriture des pierres, 1970).
:: red rocks ::

:: red rocks ::

:: red rocks ::

:: red rocks ::

:: dainty rocks ::

:: dainty rocks ::

:: drop gems ::

:: drop gems ::

:: single pendants ::

:: single pendants ::

Pic from @godzirra looking super pretty with her jewels x

Pic from @godzirra looking super pretty with her jewels x

Working on a little something special for @godzirra for the wonderful wedding of @beckiemitch x

Working on a little something special for @godzirra for the wonderful wedding of @beckiemitch x

:: just dropped a little bundle of gems off at obus - our newest stockist :: 

:: just dropped a little bundle of gems off at obus - our newest stockist :: 

:: single pendant necklace ::big thanks to the ladies at kuwaii for these cute little photos. see more of the range on their blog and facebook

:: single pendant necklace ::
big thanks to the ladies at kuwaii for these cute little photos. see more of the range on their blog and facebook