Route 511 Dead Poets Society 18 inch oxidized sterling silver

18 inch oxidized sterling silver rolo chain

Tiny 1/2" pendant necklace on a 20" rolo chain with a gold-filled S-hook clasp

• Original poem• Inscription reads: "To sing the air where the scent of your hair fades"

• Hand painted vitreous enamel• Inscription reads: "The tarpaulin blooms and sighs over the summer chairs

⁣⁣The inspiration for this piece was a woman’s carved headstone from the 1800s

Route 511 Dead Poets Society 18 inch oxidized sterling silverRoute 511 runs through rural Ohio where I grew up. It cuts through flat fields, past abandoned Victorian houses and unused railroad tracks. Even as a toddler, the austerity of this desolate road filled me a clashing sense of wonder and unease. I created the enameled images in these earrings by "painting" with powdered glass on thin steel using tiny brushes and various scraping tools. I fired the design with a torch to fuse the glass to the metal. One