Rufous Treepie (bird with a hanging tail)

Description

There is a particular stillness to the rufous treepie — the way it perches, tail long and trailing, head tilted as if listening. This brooch pin holds that moment.
Hand-fabricated in brass and copper wire, the form traces the bird’s silhouette in abstraction: a looping body, a sweeping tail, the restless energy of a creature always about to move. The copper wrapping — coiled by hand, tight and deliberate — catches warm light the way the bird’s russet plumage does in afternoon sun. The brass beneath gives it weight, structure, stillness.
Worn on a tote or pinned at the collar of a kurta, it carries a small piece of the forest with you.