Week 26: Jun. 30, 2024

Heirloom for an heiress to not much but love, Jonathan Boyd, Scottish, 2016, Oxidized and gold plated silver and lacquer

…not much but love…

This is, without doubt, the greatest name for a piece of art of all time. It is a lovely and unusual piece - and what we can’t see too well is that the band holding the art pieces in place on this tiara is covered in text, the words of the mother and father sharing their hopes for their daughter. Everything about it is touching.

The piece was encased in glass against a white background and I photographed it from about 4 different angles. Each showed different elements, but this one really made the tiara appear to hang in space against nothing but white.