Koch StarSeptember 2013 22 karat yellow gold, garnet This unusual Magen David is inspired by the progression of a Koch snowflake, which is a fractal pattern that starts with an equilateral triangle. The second iteration looks like a Star of David, and while the third iteration doesn't quite look like the eponymous snowflake, it does look like a star with botone like flourishes that would normally be found on Byzantine or Coptic crosses. In turning this

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I ran with the joke

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so I took the cursive (also known as grass script) versions of those characters and then stacked

Etruscan and Egyptian jewelry) give the piece a richness that evokes a bygone era

perpendicular to the axes of rotation of the other planets

The two lines decorating the circumference of the ring read Οὕτως γὰρ ἠγάπησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν κόσμον

Chinese dragons are typically depicted chasing a flaming pearl

I had several large chunks of alabaster left over from the process of sculpting the flame

" I decided that any metal in the piece would have to be 18K gold

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Perhaps the fact that I've been planning this for so long is why I jumped the gun