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Blood Milk Jewels

Lethe Tourmaline Quartz Ring. Size 7.5

$1,500.00

Blood Milk Jewels

Lethe Tourmaline Quartz Ring. Size 7.5

$1,500.00

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

IMPORTANT: This listing is for a One of a Kind jewel that cannot be replaced. We recommend Express Shipping with signature required upon delivery to make sure it arrives safely into your hands. This ring is Ready To Ship and will leave the studio in 3 - 5 business days. 

Please note : This ring is a size 7.5. As this is a one of a kind ring and the gemstone is irreplaceable, we are unable to resize it.

This large black tourmaline and quartz ring is named after the river Lethe, which is one of five rivers that moved through the Underworld and that the ferryman Charon would pass the newly dead over. In myth, to drink from the River Lethe meant you would experience forgetfulness of your previous life, often preparing your soul for reincarnation. Lethe is also the Goddess of oblivion, for whom the river is named. 

Sometimes at night when I'm trying to settle my thoughts and fall asleep, all of my worst memories surface, and I'm haunted by all my past mistakes. I often wish there was a way to erase these memories, that seem to transform and intensify any time they materialize. This is a talisman for this strange kind of time travel, and a wish for making peace with those moments in our past lives we wish to be free from and healed.

Life cast bat bones were manipulated to create this ring. Cast in sterling silver silver, each piece is oxidized to achieve our signature shade of stormy gray and the hand finished to reveal the silver highlight beneath.

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* :

- 50mm tall 

- 36mm wide

- Sits 14.5mm 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 24 x 36mm fine cut tourmalinated quartz stone 


Black Tourmaline Quartz: is a variety of clear quartz with naturally occurring needle-like inclusions of black tourmaline.

Quartz is a considered the 'Master Healer, and is known for its propensity to improve memory and bring clarity to the consciousness. In this way, it is also a helpful tool in meditation.

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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