Remember your origins
EMBODIED SYMBOLISM
Adornments shaped by hand, material, and story.
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Handmade in Butte, MOntana
New and One of a kind
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 feminine.
Original Form collection - Archetype inspired
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 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 women who already know there is more to them than the world has made room for.
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 artisanal miners and 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 make for are returning to themselves. Some are at threshold moments — grief, transformation, the strange freedom of no longer needing to be who the world expected. Others are simply continuing the quiet, fierce work of building a life that reflects their actual depth. These pieces are made for all of it.
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