Today's the happy day! I have been begging for tentacles since... well, pretty much since the day Larkin first picked up wire. 😅 Check out these tendrilly wendrilly undulating copper lovelies! 🐙
This is a prototype piece, and Larkin is hoping to make a series of these, each unique with different stones and tentacle patterns. This one has copper tentacles with itsy bitsy silver suckers on the largest-- it has been awhile since Larkin has worked with copper and there is a tiny crack on the largest where they didn't anneal it sufficiently before twisting it into its final form. 🐙
The deep green pool is "applegate jade," (actually bowenite) probably our family's favorite local stone. It's almost black in some light, glows when backlit, and attracts a magnet! ✨
Larkin shaped the back plate from solid sterling silver and fashioned the tentacles to look as if they are emerging from or grabbing it. 🐙
