GLACIER SILT BAR EARRINGS

Gold-plated hardware & Glacial Silt from the Mendenhall glacier in Juneau, Alaska, and the MatSu glacier in south central Alaska.

These earrings carry the quiet force of time.

Inspired by the slow movement of glaciers against mountain walls, these elongated bar earrings are a meditation on endurance and transformation. Over thousands of years, ice presses into stone—grinding sharp peaks into fine, breath-soft silt. What was once immovable is reshaped, not by violence, but by persistence.

“Glaciers carve mountains the way memory carves us—slowly, quietly, without permission.
They grind towering stone into fine silt over lifetimes we cannot measure.
What remains is proof that even the strongest walls yield to persistence.
Time is the sharpest tool nature owns.”

Each pair features a minimalist gold-plated frame holding dark, earthy glacial silt—material born of pressure, cold, and immeasurable time. The clean geometry contrasts with the organic texture of the silt, echoing the tension between strength and surrender found in the natural world.

Elegant, grounded, and deeply rooted in the North, these earrings are meant to be worn as a reminder: transformation does not need to be fast to be powerful.

Details:

• Gold-PLATED settings and components

• Rectangular double-bar drop design

• Natural glacial silt inlay

• Lightweight with graceful movement

• Handmade, one pair at a time

ARTIST BIO

Kassandra Aki-Eyre is an Inupiaq artist and a certified Silver Hand artist, born and raised in Alaska. She is a tribal member of the Native Village of Kotzebue and works under her jewelry label Modern Indigenous, where contemporary design meets ancestral materials and northern landscapes.

Her work explores themes of time, resilience, and place—drawing inspiration from glaciers, tundra, oceans, and the quiet strength of Arctic environments. Using materials such as silver, gold-fill, copper, stone, resin, fur, ivory, bone, and naturally sourced elements, Kassandra creates pieces that honor both modern luxury and Indigenous connection to land.

Each piece is designed and handcrafted in Alaska, carrying story, intention, and respect for the materials used.