The Aerie

Fabiano calls this piece 'the family.' A commanding white quartz eagle — wings fully extended — presides over three smaller birds that cling to the face of an amethyst cathedral. The eagle was carved from a single quartz formation that Fabiano extracted from 30 meters deep in Serra da Canastra. He spent two weeks on the wings alone.

The amethyst cathedral beneath the birds contains crystals of extraordinary depth — nearly black at the center, lightening to violet at the edges. The three smaller birds — a cockatoo, a songbird, and a fledgling — each required their own stone selection. The base is a raw crystal quartz formation that Fabiano left deliberately unpolished.