Oropopo

NEW! El Malpais Short Leather Ring by Oropopo

$50.00
Color:
Black
Dark Copper

Pickup available at 320 Harvard Street

Usually ready in 24 hours

The El Malpais region in Western New Mexico has a reputation as a desolate region of volcanic rock covered sandstone. The El Malpais rings appropriate the aesthetic tension between smooth surfaces and fractured lines.

Leather color ways stretch a bit and fit ring sizes from 7 to 9

1" tall

Handmade in in New Mexico

OROPOPO is a husband and wife duo who make jewelry, bags and objects in their Albuquerque 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."

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