Due to the special nature of these jewels, they are only available for purchase one per person. 

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Please note : This ring is a size 6.75. Please note that because this is a one of a kind ring and the gemstone is irreplaceable, we are unable to resize it.

Named for the God Hypnos, son of Nyx, the primordial Goddess of the Night, this jewel is framed by a collage of delicate life cast bat bones. In Ancient Greece, Hypnos was known as the personification of Sleep, a gentle god who ruled over the sleeping lives of people. In sleep, our consciousness is altered, we have 'escaped' our waking lives. For some of us, sleep comes easy, for others it's fraught. In either case, we need to sleep to live, and therefore, part of our lives were believed to have been "owned" by Hypnos. Being asleep can be likened to being in a state of forgetting, an oblivion we can surrender to. It is there that we exist on the cusp between worlds, the edge of our personal Underworlds, where can meet other parts of ourselves that are hidden, our ancestors, or a place to receive divinatory messages; fleeting pieces of inspiration we can ferry back into the waking world. 

Bats:

Bats and their cast wing and leg bones have long been a component I’ve used in my visual library as a way of creating a personal visual language. As nocturnal creatures, I feel a kinship with their natural predilection for the night time hours, but I’m also interested in how they use sonar to ‘see’, how as a metaphor bats as liminal creatures also remind us to look closer with our other senses, a way of ‘seeing the unseen.’ It’s my hope and intention that pairing them with other chthonic imagery and myth further adds to the visual meaning I’m aiming for, creating a collage of personal ideas while also tethering these physical jeweled objects to the spirit of the bat ( and other natural objects in the case of other jewels in my collection ) and to the spirit of the myths I’m invoking.

*Details* :

- 33mm from top to bottom

- 33mm wide

- Sits 6mm off of the finger

- Solid Sterling Silver  

- Hand oxidized to achieve our favorite shade of stormy gray and then highlighted to reveal the bright luminous silver beneath

- Set with one 18 x 18 mm Cushion Cut Purple Labradorite

Purple Labradorite: 

Labradorite with a ‘full range’ of colors, including purple, has also been called ‘Spectrolite’ ~ though over the years these more colorful iterations have been given many other names depending on the range of colors captured in the specific cuts we’ve been able to collect in our “special jewels”, and now, in our specific ring cuts. Sometimes they are called ‘Sunset Labs’ for the way they appear to hold the melting colors of the sun setting - pinks and lavenders as well as even hints of flaming reds and deep purples, are all married within one stone. Other stones under the name ‘Belladonna’ vary from the purples of wet oyster shells to the pale lavender of the petals of belladonna flowers - each stone is unique and carries with it, its time underground - where under pressure, its glorious colors bloomed within. Interestingly, it’s light that enables its range of colors to be reveled - turning it in the light, while on the finger or in ones hand - creates a kind of ‘shapeshifting’ effect - the internal fractures and layers within the stone allow for different colors within the stone shift, flash, and to reveal themselves differently. I’m sure there is more science and scientific words at play here that I could be using more effectively and may be able to as my knowledge expands, but as someone who has been wearing and has been interested in labradorite since I was a child - it is a pleasure and a joy to be able to be working with this beautiful earth made material, to be able to offer it here, now, to you, in these beautiful cuts.

This jewel is hand cut and therefore may have small signs of the carver's hands along the edges. This has not been fabricated by a machine, it has been made by hand and therefore isn't uniformly perfect. The photographs accurately portray the quality of the stone. 

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