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For this pendant, I wanted to us cuttlefish castings for the interior surfaces but also wanted the precision of lost wax casting. Instead of pouring the silver directly into the cuttlefish, I took an impression of the interior of a cuttlefish bone with wax, which I made a mold. The mold allowed me to create more controlled shapes and thicknesses of cuttlefish sheet, and I no longer had to use a new bone for each casting. The resulting sheets combined with the garnets in their round frame look like hills with red stars. As this pendant was finished a few hours after watching Dalhousie University's production of Macbeth, Stars, Hide Your Fires became its name. The pendant sits on an 18" snake chain, which ends at the back with a toggle clasp.