Desert island...

Spell Spring Summer 12/13 

Photography: Johnny Abegg
Model: Matilda Price
Art direction and styling: Isabella and Elizabeth Briedis of Spell
Hair and makeup: Luciana Briedis

Sometimes -- when I'm falling asleep or driving a really familiar road or sitting on the train in the morning -- I daydream about the endless list of projects I'd love to get started on. Not the least of which has always been silversmithing, and so that leads to thinking about what I'd put into the perfect jewellery collection. 

It goes a bit like this: raw and metal-cast quartz, brass and silver, somehow incorporate some heavy, decorative linework etched into primal warrior plating... and other aesthetic things I like -- maybe some cacti, a hint of the desert and the rays of a rising sun, scarab/thunderbird-esque spread wings, feathers, bones, leather, turquoise, dusty boots... 

But, with no hope of me learning to work metal anytime soon, it's a spectacular-good-thing that Spell and the Gypsy Collective is out there doing the hard yards for daydreamers like me. And when I saw this ring, I was floored -- how did they come up with something so perfect? It's exactly all the things I'd love to put together in a ring, but wouldn't have the first idea about how to tie them all together. 

So, quite obviously, I'm just excited about the whole thing. Naturally, in response to my excitement, I drew a picture (and used the dodgy scanner -- sorry about the image quality). 

And here we are.