🎵🎶 "I'd like to be
Under the sea
In an octopus's garden
With you" 🎶🎵
This round agate cabochon looks like a dreamy underwater scene, and Larkin crafted its silver frame to suit it perfectly! The bezel set porthole is circled by silver rivets, two clusters of tiny hand-fabricated barnacles, and a sweet sculpted sea star with two legs that wrap around to the back of the piece.
Once again, the back of Larkin's work is not to be out-done by the front! On the back, the tips of the sea star tentacles and the backs of the rivets surround a cluster of kelp waving in the current.
When backlit, the kelp blades show through the translucent agate window.
These pieces take a phenomenal amount of time! Every element is hand-made from sterling wire and sheet metal then attached individually-- and every step of the fabrication process and each attachment point is an opportunity for Larkin's torch to get just a little too close to the metal for slightly too long, causing everything to slump into an amorphous blob. These blobs are spectacularly morphous! 🤣
