A customer of mine, Chrissie, gave me Carte Blanche to design and make a dragonfly pendant for her. The dragonfly represents her late mother who passed away two months ago, right after her death, a dragonfly hovered into the room. Every now and then, when Chrissie longs for her mother, she seems to attract dragonflies, This pendant will serve as a reminder of her late mother.
After making this piece, I thought about what a dragonfly represents in my own life. When I look at a dragonfly, a sense of calamity comes over me and the wings of a dragonfly always remind me of my childhood (I used to collect the wings of insects as I believed that fairies were real, My mother would tell me that fairies used the wings of dragonflies, butterflies and beetles as their own to fly around when human's weren't watching) I also feel a sense of fantasy and nostalgia when I see them in nature. They always seem to hover with so much poise over bodies of water and break the surface to lay their eggs, with so much courage (who knows what's lurking in the waters below) . Perhaps the wings of dragonflies can become a metaphor of self assurance and self awareness.
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