Daphne’s Hand pendant

$169 Prices in US dollars.

Material: 925 silver
Type: Pendant

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925 silver, with chain$169

We also made a hand that grows laurel leaves. Like Louis in The Waves it becomes a plant, takes root and sprouts. It also nods to the Daphne of Greek myth.

Sources

Ovid. Metamorphoses, Book I (Apollo and Daphne). Translated by David Raeburn, Penguin, 2004.
韩江. 《素食者》. 四川文艺出版社, 2021.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Alma Classics, 2018.

Louis’s roots are an image in his opening monologue in The Waves, not a literal transformation. The hand with laurel leaves is Le Fond’s combination of imagery from the two works.