About the Item

Teresa Kiplinger's "Tiny Catastrophe" collection is a limited series of modern memento mori pieces that explore the fragility of existence and our desire to prevent, explain, and control the uncontrollable.

In The Houses Hurried Along, she painted the enameled illustration to look like documentary black and white newspaper photos and brownie camera snapshots, accompanied by etched poetic "eye witness accounts" of the catastrophic scenes depicted in the enamels.

This ring features sterling silver, vitreous enamel, and an original micro-poem etched on the ring band. The ring was hand painted, torch fired, etched, and hand fabricated.

The ring's face measures approximately 1" in diameter. Size 7.

About the Artist

Teresa Kiplinger is a studio jeweler, a poet, and a noted graphic designer. She combines precious metals, humble alloys, enameled images, and original verse to create haunting and expressive art jewelry. Inspired by personal narratives, fragmented memory, and ephemera, her evocative memento mori call us to consider the fragility of our existence. Her work was selected for SNAG's juried As Good as Gold exhibition (2020) and has appeared in Belle Armoire Jewelry (2018, 2019, 2020 featured artist). She is a member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Enamelist Society, the Enamel Guild North East, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Kent State University (1992) and served on the inaugural advisory board for Kent's Visual Communication Design program. She works out of her metals studio near Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

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