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This necklace is Ready To Ship and will leave the studio in 3 - 5 business days.

Please Note: This necklace will be created with an 18" bar link chain. If you desire a different chain length you must reach out to us immediately after placing your order for a custom quote on the additional length.

The spiral is an ancient Neolithic symbol seen across cultures and places in the world, including as paintings in caves and petroglyph carvings . While we can only surmise what the symbol meant to our ancestors, some guesses suggest the symbol is a representation of the sun, or a portal to the spirit world. Others include it representing life itself, or life beyond life. Eternity. In some cultures, spirals featured prominently at burial mounds, carved into stones at the entrances to tombs.  

By pairing the rib bones of a snake with the ancient symbol of the spiral, I’m suggesting transformation; the endless cycle of life and decay, the push and pull of our daily lives, our immense feelings, our ups and downs. The countless sheddings we undergo, the many lives we can live in the one life we walk. 

We enter the spiral and traverse its path in a similar way we do the labyrinth, circling around it, moving both forward and backward. The spiral mimics the way memory works ~ a carpet rolled up in our minds that we can unfurl, endless rings of time we can access when we look backward, to aid us in moving forward. 

As a way to view life and time in its true a non-linear fashion, the spiral represents how we have both gains and losses throughout our life. As a talismanic vessel, this can assist us with accepting this way of experiencing life, as a companion whilst walking the spiral. 

 *Details* :

- 49 mm from top to bottom

- 42 mm wide

- Solid Sterling Silver  

- Both pendant and chain are hand oxidized to achieve our favorite shade of stormy gray and then highlighted to reveal the bright luminous silver beneath.

- Set with one 40 mm spyglass

Spyglass:

Magnifying lenses magnify the small things we are unable to see clearly when placed beneath the glass, acting as a large, powerful ‘eye’. While the glass is fully functional as an object/tool, as a talisman it urges its wearer to look closer, to see/feel the invisible: whether that be by examining our feelings and our Shadow with a deeper gaze or turning our sights to others; to mindfully ‘see’ our friends, lovers, family, and community: to foster a deeper sense of empathy, to spark the current of transformation.

*Please note glass is hand cast and may have slight waves and / or imperfections in it. Please note that while this lens does magnify, it is not a professional grade magnifying lens.

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