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The necklace begins with the heART, Picasso Jasper, heart of stone gray, seemingly fractured by black lines slashing through it.
A succession of bead-woven chevrons launch forward as from an archer’s bow*, in burnished steel, brushed silver, ebony, charcoal and bronze, to secure the heart below and betwixt your collarbones; suspended playfully from a vintage Skeleton Key with a wonderfully aged patina.

A bead-woven rope of a zillion (give or take) itty bitty seed beads in metallic graphite wraps around your neck and securely fastens courtesy of a magnetic “holding hand” clasp.

rope necklace: 18 1/2 inches
key & heart & arrow assemblage: 2 1/2 inches

heart pendant: 1 1/4” h x 2” w

>>—->* arrow collection: inspired by ebb & flow, how the archer must pull the arrow back so that it has the momentum to launch forward

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“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” ~ Tennessee Williams