Michael Good, a founding member of AJDC who is known for advancing the technique of anticlastic raising, in which a flat piece of metal is hammered into right-angled curves using a sinusoidal stake, takes a different approach in his ICE piece. Good fashioned a spiraling, ruffled pendant in patinated bronze with a single pearl at the center—a shape that to him suggests the “swirling ice floes” that form in rivers during the spring thaw. “In this case, I had the advantage of coming from mid-coast Maine, where the topic is one with which I am well acquainted,” he quips. The most whimsical take on the subject comes from Mark Schneider with his wonderfully realistic ice- cream bar brooch, made from a rock crystal covered in sterling silver with a richly textured chocolate- brown patina. For this Pop art confection, Schneider drew on his admiration for Andy Warhol and his “ability to poke fun at the establishment while remaining original and relevant.” As with Warhol’s soup cans, Schneider aimed for brand-name realism by meticulously engraving the Häagen Dazs logo into the gold. But the initial inspiration came from the crystal itself, which he found during his annual sojourn to the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. “I saw this piece of quartz that just looked like a Popsicle or an ice cream cone, and I knew that was what I wanted to do,” he says. The artist literally put his imprint on this piece through the teeth marks in the upper corner, where a “bite” has been taken out of the bar. “I wanted to personalize it with my DNA, so I bought some Häagen Dazs bars, but they did not give a good impression. Finally, the thing that worked the best was a Popsicle. I bit into it, and my front three molars looked really good. I took a picture of it and gave it to a friend of mine who’s a great lapidary and he ground it out.” WAVE We expect a painting or a poem to reveal something of the life story of its maker. The same is often true of a piece of jewelry, though it may be less apparent to the observer. Take Jane Bohan’s Surfboard brooch, created for the 2013 WAVE project. It is indeed in the general shape of a surfboard, but the chalcedony cabochon that forms its translucent surface is traversed by curving bands of oxidized sterling silver to create shapes that evoke the Catalan Art Nouveau architecture of Antoni Gaudí. Taken together, these elements pay dual homage to Bohan’s love of the ocean and her travels to Barcelona. Susan Helmich’s Tidal Wave pendant weaves mythology and experience into a dramatic piece on the emotional turmoil of betrayal. At its center is a four-inch-high head of Medusa carved in delicate, untreated turquoise by an anonymous Italian artist. 16