Mouse jawbones and gold fly necklace

Symbology

The mouse jawbones are the fragility of life and an honest remnant, the bone that stays when all else is gone, without mask or ornament. Their mirrored placement is an inner dialogue, two facing forms holding balance and tension at once. The gold fly is decay, desire and metamorphosis, a symbol of both life's persistence and its inevitable passing, the gold lending an alluring, almost sacred note. The black background is silence and depth, room for the detail to speak, and the gothic frame binds the natural and the handmade into one ritual, timeless whole.