Anne Arden McDonald

Ring height: 1.7cm or ³/₄ ins. (more or less, depending on ring size) Available in sizes 3.5, 5, 7.5, 8, 9, 9.5, 10, 10.5, 11

This is one of my favorites—birds and flying have always been a metaphor for freedom for me—I feel a lot of tension living in a body that has limitations and yet has a mind that is free to dream—

Height is 1.2cm or 1/2 ins. - Available in size 7.75

When I was evicted from my loft, I would close my eyes at night and draw pictures of little houses, and when I opened my eyes, the drawings were always surprising (you can see them here). It was as if they were tiny prayers for a home. This ring is an homage to that time—

Ring height: 1.5cm or ¹/₂ ins. tall at the tallest— Available in size 5.5, 7.5

I picked the top of a fern, pressed it into a wax band, and cast it—It had such a graphic line, like tiny fiddleheads, each one a fractal—I like that they feel so ancient, and I like how Anselm Kiefer has used them—

Ring height: 1.2m or ¹/₂ ins. tall at the tallest. Available in size 7.5, 8.75, 11.75

I picked the top of a fern, pressed it into a wax band, and cast it—It came out with such delicate detail, like lace—

Ring height: 1 cm or ⁷/₁₆^th ins., measured at widest point. Available in size 6, 7.25, 8.25

This is the first ring I made—I stitched apple seeds together and cast them—I was thinking about having a child and wanted to meditate on seeds and fertility of all kinds— but people see different things in it—flames, teeth, tears, a crown—

Size 5, height is 1.2cm or .5 in. Available in size 5.5, 8.5

I am attracted to spirals—the shape, the movement, and the science—the golden mean, Fibonacci, etc.

Size 8, height is 1.5cm or ⁵/₈ in.

See above, but I also love that this one shows how it grows larger—

Ring height: .3cm or ¹/₈ in. Available in size 6

This ring has been used as a wedding band, and has a very good handmade irregular feeling to the touch—

Ring height: .6cm or ^1/₄ ins. Available in size 8, 8.5, 9.5

I made this one to think about what it means to be a couple and yet remain individuals—one comes from one place, one comes from another, and they lie down together—

Ring height: 1.5cm or ⁵/₈ of an inch tall at the tallest spot. Available in size 10 (approx.)

I made a collage of bones, the way they never would have been in nature—a hip glued to a hand to an arm to a spine, and cast it into a ring-

Ring height: .5cm or ¹/₄ ins. Available in size 8 (approx.)

This ring is 4 small animals' arm, leg, finger or toe bones glued together, with some extra knee or hand pieces at the corners-this ring taught me that while we think of fingers as round, they are equally square at the knuckle.