Ashes Reborn: The Ring That Had to Break Before It Could Live

The Idea

The design began with a skull. On one side, the face fractures into shards that stretch across the band. On the other, the skull reforms, whole again. Death and rebirth. Break and rebuild. That’s what this ring had to say.

The Failure

The first time I made this ring, it failed.
It came out of the workshop looking like a shadow of what I had in mind—unfinished, hollow, without the weight of truth.

The Struggle

The break didn’t feel violent enough.

The rebuild didn’t carry the weight of victory. It looked like jewelry. It wasn’t yet truth. So I tore it down. Re-cut. Re-forged. Re-built.

The Rebirth

Failure stings, but it also speaks. I realized that for a piece meant to embody death and rebirth, it too had to go through its own cycle. It had to break before it could rise.