After the fire
Everything you see, except for stones and beads was made from scratch, from silver coins and even silver scrap to molten metal, ingots and from there metal sheet, wire, forms... Aside in a picture, burnt stone carvings show what it was the nest that created shapes just as old American Indian traditional silver work, ingots, coins, scorched surfaces where a red hot crucible with liquid silver dancing under the fire gave birth parts and bits. Days of individual elements work until the piece is born.
The stones? Raw ruby, the central one a "time keeper" and at the sides to scorched ones, burnt to red hot to create the distress of this brutalist post apocalyptical piece. The beads? Red jasper with mate finish.
The focal construction solid and ferocious is an sculpture that we can suspect forged on the edge of a volcano or under the tools of a primitive blacksmith, secured and reinforced behind to give the strength that can make the piece a heirloom, something that future archeologists could excavate and wonder.
After the fire is bold, a statement, defiance.
Solid oxidized Sterling, raw ruby, blue small cubis zirconia and red jasper.
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For measurements, the pictures where the piece rests on the bust show you the real dimensions, this is a real human size mannequin -not a jewelry bust- so it shows how it could look on you.
It measures in length total approx 19 inches
