My Grandmother's Teeth Ring
The centerpiece of the Inherited Remains series. Cast from reclaimed silver and set with rough diamonds during the casting process, My Grandmother's Teeth began with an offhand remark made during a conversation about recycling inherited jewellery. Someone joked about "wearing my grandmother's teeth" - melting down old family gold felt strangely intimate and at the same time slightly unsettling. 
The ring takes that image literally. Its open form resembles a dental impression tray while simultaneously echoing the horseshoe, a symbol of good fortune. Two simplified skulls mark its ends, each holding a salt-and-pepper rough diamond, while tiny white diamonds glimmer from their eye sockets, balancing memento mori with dark humour.
Black ruthenium plated. Size 19 approx.