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Turtle Ring
Hand-carved sterling silver with peridot
Tail Ring
Open silver with a dark spinel
An open-band sterling silver bypass ring — a bezel-set dark spinel on one end, a hand-sculpted leaf bud on the other
Materials
- Sterling Silver
Open bypass band, hand-finished with high polish
- Black Spinel
Faceted round, approx. 8mm, bezel-set at one terminal
Techniques
Wax ModelingLost-Wax CastingBezel SettingHigh Polish
Dimensions
- band Width3mm
- opening Gap8mm
- stone Size8mm round
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The ring does not close. One end rises to a circular bezel holding a dark faceted spinel — near-black, with flashes of deep purple when light enters from above. The other end tapers and curls into a sculptural bud: a tulip or an unfurling leaf, hand-modeled in wax so that the surface reads as something grown rather than drawn.
Between the two ends, the band describes a smooth arc — no taper, no decoration, nothing to compete with the two terminals. The gap between them is intentional: open jewelry is jewelry that breathes.
The spinel and the bud balance each other without matching. One is geometry; the other is nature. The ring lives in the tension between them.
The Story
Open bypass rings require the two ends to feel resolved independently — otherwise the eye reads incompleteness rather than intention. The bud form went through several wax iterations before it held its weight against the stone. The spinel was chosen because its darkness gives the stone-end gravity without demanding color from the rest of the piece.
