Impossible Dream PendantNovember 2009 14 karat yellow gold Made for a retired businessman who has a love for both Chinese art and the poetic outlook of Cervantes' most famous character, the characters (p mng) on the face of this 14k gold cartouche translate to "impossible dream."

They are accented with pink cultured pearls and sterling silver beads

14k yellow gold & glass enamel

August 2016

or at least a humanoid

noticing the forms

and of course a lot of jewelry is made using them as a motif

I happened to have a bunch of gorgeous purplish-pink rhodolite garnets

Normally when I'm working on a piece—especially when it's a custom piece for a client—I start with a story and and work towards a design that tells it

and which sundered the block on the first day of carving before I had barely blunted its corners

He asked me if I could do the same thing with a crescent and star with the name of his wife

a myopic point of view

I instead made a repoussage (where the design is hammered out from the back) of the flame motif in 18K yellow gold