KilterNovember 2017 Sterling silver, cubic zirconium This began as an experiment in channel setting, and it's not certainly not the first iteration of the designteaching one's self a challenging stone setting technique is not always quick and without pain. The constant was the staggered architectural lines of the setting, which in my head I kept referring to as "off kilter" when designing and forging it. Yet despite how we use commonly use that phrase,

1990 Scholastic Art Awards

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I was playing around with setting stones on the tips of thicker wire stock

We chose a beautiful half-carat F-color SI clarity diamond as the centerpiece of the ring

placed the diamond from the painting opposite the central flower

Rendered in seal script

a teardrop-shaped traditional Chinese lute

We added tapered diamond baguettes to the side as on the original and shaped the band in a similar fashion

was a purpose—the pendant actually became her wedding ring

You can see the ginkgo leaves more clearly from the side

which has both the clarity and depth of pelagic waters but also a sparkle that rivals the glint of the sun reflecting off the surface chop of the open ocean

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