Sea Urchin Cocktail Ring - Aqua - Gold
The Story of Sea Urchin This ring is a testament to how impactful my years underwater have been. I love the ocean, and if you do too, this might be the ring for you. The biggest influence in my sister’s art has always been nature, and the glorious sea urchin of our youth and of Earnst Haeckel’s prints is central to our pantheon. There is something divine about the intricate skeleton of a sea urchin. It has a natural geometry, a royal shape, and it begs to be touched. Who would have thought that this beauty was what you would find underneath a sea urchin’s protective spines? What are you hiding under your protective spines? I think sea urchins are beautiful, but I also love to eat them. My local sea urchins have not yet been discovered by the Japanese, so we have no idea how they should be served, but the rest of the world seems to know exactly what makes a sea urchin special. In my twenties I went as far north as Rebun-shi in Hokkaido to eat uni, and I’ve harvested my own achin