Trace Fossil Long Necklace

Where the common idea of fossil records consists of reconstructed skeletons towering overhead in museum, another more subtle record of ancient life is contained in the impressions left behind by the living creature that were more ephemeral.

Trace Fossils are tracks in the sandstone, the rollercoaster like tunnel burrow in petrified wood, or a bite on a leaf long ago impressed in the mud. Trace Fossils are not a thing but a a fixed displacement and preservation of shapes and outlines.

The curving lines and translucence of the material in these designs expresses marks of movement and the shape of rest preserved in the mineral layers from long ago.