Sometimes I am comforted by envisioning the invisible, painting the unseeable. In a moment of grief, I created this tiny enameled scene depicting a gray sky with golden souls ascending from this world into the next. As I worked, I thought too, of those of us left behind after loss, and the words from one of my poems came to mind:“To sing the air wherescent of your hair fades,and bathe in light that fallswhere you cannot sleep.”These pendants are completely hand fabricated. The enameled piece features an original one-of-a-kind glass scene that I created using tiny brushes to "paint" with finely ground glass and water and fused it with a torch. I created the "souls" with a thin layer of 24k gold fused within the glass. It is a little larger than 3/4" wide, and I set it in a handmade sterling silver prong setting alongside a smaller sterling silver medallion which I etched with part of an original poem about loss. The medallion is pitted and distressed to add the look of a coin rescued from a sunken ship.The medallions are suspended together from an 18” solid sterling silver rolo chain with an S-hook pinch clasp, and it makes a gentle and satisfying tinkling sound when worn.
