1″x1″, found objects and glass
You would have had to get very close to the hat pin that this cameo came from to really see the face, but if you did, you’d see carefully carved features. I love cameos and old paintings because they make me wonder whether they were meant to be a faithful representation of someone or an idealized image. What version of ourselves is captured? How will we be remembered? In this pendant the antique cameo is surrounded by pieces of aged mirror, offering a faded and distorted reflection of our own face if we get close enough to look.
