MALDIVA

A woman brought bags and boxes of collected shells to our studio one day. ”I used to live in India and travelled to the Maldives a couple of times. These are my shell memories from those years in my life. Do you think you can make something nice for me? Something white and romantic.” We did our very best and she was tearfully happy the first time she saw it. That felt good.

Mixed shells and coral fragments from India and The Maldives. Polished turbo and top shells, moon scallops, egg cowries, oysters, sand dollars, arrow heads, banana shells, mixed cones, scallops, mixed murex shells, abalones, barnacles, moon shells, white bubble shells, white rotongs, white nassa shells, olives.

Inner rim: European heart cockles

Outer rim: white bubbles and moon shells