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The necklace begins with the heART, a perfectly painterly specimen of Black Plum Jasper, replete with gorgeous swirls, vines & pools of color, resembling flowers on a silk kimono, or perhaps an Odilon Redon painting.

A succession of bead-woven chevrons launch forward as from an archer’s bow*, in burnished steel, antique gold and bronze, to secure the heart below and betwixt your collarbones; suspended playfully from the bead-woven rope of a zillion (give or take) itty bitty seed beads in tones of ebony, charcoal, graphite, and antique gold.

Woven into the necklace is a lush garden of individually beaded blossoms in lilac, lavender, violet, periwinkle, hyacinth, rose, marigold, geranium and poppy.

All this wonder fastens at your nape courtesy of a vintage black glass Rose Button.

rope necklace: 17 1/2 to 18 1/2 inches
heart & arrow assemblage: 4 1/4 inches

heart pendant: 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches

>>—->* arrow collection: inspired by ebb & flow, how the archer must pull the arrow back so that it has the momentum to launch forward

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow >>-->of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms

but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers ~,*

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how,

or when,

or from where.

I love you straightforwardly,

without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,

so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

~,*Pablo Neruda<--<<