“I would give you some violets, but they wither'd all when my father died. They say he made a good end.” — Ophelia

Controlled by the three men in her life—her father Polonius, her brother Laertes, and Hamlet, all symbolized in the cadence of three beads in the watery blue she would drown in—she eventually went mad, saying that all the violets had withered, a symbol of her innocence, after her father’s death. I decided to give them back to her.

I created this piece using some very clear, but still wonderfully blue, apatite as my base. It recalled that dirty blue water that so sadly brought Ophelia to her end. The Lucite flowers with yellow Swarovski crystal stamen were a part of the original inspiration. Their sweetness could only be with someone so innocent, but they hang downward in sadness and loss, climbing down a short measure of chain. The piece is on flexwire, finished with sterling silver findings, the final detail being flower toggles on both the necklace and a sort of flower crown bracelet.