Plea – A Wishing and Hoping Pendant
I stayed up late last night making this piece…the little faceted labradorite stones were telling me that they needed to be used in something, so I had to listen.
I have been thinking a lot about Hope lately, and how beautiful and horrible it is at the same time. How fragile it is, and how we cling to it. How sometimes that helps us, and other times it leads us astray. How we all have that need to believe inside us – that vulnerable longing for something.
This pendant is tiny – only 13mm in diameter (0.5″). I stamped it with the word “please” in a script font, so it looks italicised. I wanted it to be a whisper, a fragile, vulnerable thing.
The stone is a faceted labradorite, my current stone obsession – which is a wishing stone, fabled to bring you what you ask it. The pendant is slightly cupped to hold the wish, and has been hammered and beaten slightly to give depth and age. The whole has been oxidised and then buffed to a shine. It is strung on a choker length leather thong, so it sits in the hollow of the throat, where voice begins, and emotions swells.
Plea
