Mondial Neuman and Alison Page launched this award winning collection of contemporary Aboriginal jewellery in 2007. https://oneworldpublications.com/pink_diamonds_2009.html
The featured image, ‘Totem’ is made of ‘twigs’ of white gold in an extended lattice, bound as in the traditional way by rose gold ‘sinews’, incorporating brilliant cut, natural-coloured diamonds at the intersections. Alison was also able to include totems representing her people from La Perouse, the Whale and the Lyre Bird, both of which are symbolic parts of her heritage.
Deliberately incorporating the sacred geometry that underlies the world’s oldest buildings, the result is neither sea-creature nor bird, yet retains the soul of both.
Other pieces in the Diamond Dreaming range represent aspects of Aboriginal life: to sing, to dream, to fly, to sit around the fire and to love. Boomerangs of course represent flight, the soaring flight of the spirit. The Clapsticks, a musical instrument, represent rhythm and song and the shallow curved-oval Coolamon holds dreams, much as an original might hold a child. The concentric semi-circles around a central fire and family and friends sharing stories while the symbol representing at once a head and an encircling spirit means love.
Diamond Dreaming | Blue Moon Pendant | 2007?