Between Dusk and Dawn Mounted
pin-brooch,
2007
Patinated silver, rubies, grey star-sapphire, padparadcha sapphire, 18ct white gold pin materials:
I seem unable not to anthropomorphise the bat – a trick of fancy which I put down to early encounters with people wrestling with reluctant umbrellas. This particular nocturnal being took shape, literally, between two forms of sapphire: behind him, and enfolded in his wings, is a giant star-sapphire weighing 21 grams, an evening star in a crepuscular grey sky; before him, within his grasp, the limpid pink blush of a rare padparadcha, or dawn, sapphire – the beginning and end of a night.
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k e v i n c oat e s : a n ot e b o o k o f p i n s
40mm 34mm mount: mixed media Signed and dated artist’s no: 414.MP-B.07 hidden alchemy: 211-12 height (without pin): width:
