About

Ariana Corrado is a Seattle-based jeweler and a world traveler. It was during a sojourn in South America that her true love of jewelry design was engaged. A charmed year of her life was spent living in Ecuador and Peru, where she learned wire-working from local as well as other traveling artisans. She recalls: "We would harvest our seeds and shells by digging in the dirt on the riverbanks or in the sand by the ocean. We gathered nuts, seeds feathers and pods from the Amazon and incorporated them into our jewelry" When she left South America she carried that inspiration home with her and subsequently developed her business: Pachari Wireworks. Pachari comes from an amalgam of the word "pachamama" which means mother earth in Quechua, and her nickname "Ari".

Her work is unique, each piece is one of a kind and made with great attention to detail and quality craftsmanship. She sees this as appreciating the smaller things in life, the minutiae/microcosm of the bigger picture. Ariana builds her own chains, links, clasps and sets her own stones. She does this as a way of honoring the practice of "slow art" and in quiet protest of the mass-produced machine-made norm we are all too quickly growing accustomed to accept.

Ariana loves jewelry because it is a way of adorning the physical & spiritual temple while expressing one's own sense of beauty and style.

Thank you to all of my friends who have proven to not only be incredible friends, but also incredible models! Thank you to my dear and talented friend Michael Cain, who devoted many hours of his time to photograph these lovely ladies. More of his photography is available for viewing at pigpants.net