Ruth/Miriam TimbrelNovember 2009 Sterling silver, 14 karat yellow gold Commissioned by a very patient friend of mine, this pendant is packed with meaning. Her Hebrew name is Ruth Miriam, which is reflected everywhere in the design of the piece. The top of the front face is a stylized representation of wheat done in 14K yellow gold, which alludes to Ruth 2: 23 wherein Ruth " stayed close to the maidservants of Boaz, and gleaned until the barley harvest and the wheat

You gotta admit

Then it was a simple matter of predicting brushstroke direction to connect the components

It occurred to me that I could take the lens out of a watchmaker's loupe and set it into a pendant

an engagement pendant

January 2023

and that the groom's skulls are more ominous and anatomically correct

2mm-diameter lemon quartz stone is set into a 10K crown-shaped gold setting

This pendant may seem to have a slightly redundant pronunciation

The spiraling text cut into the base of the piece is the entire Hebrew text of the third chapter of the Book of Proverbs

a friend and her husband approached me to upgrade her engagement ring

full phase—the sun reflected

In Greco-Roman mythology