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Duke and Lume

A vessel made, not grown

The Orb

Reliquaries
Year
2026
Collection
Reliquaries
Medium
Digital artwork
Orientation
portrait

The Orb is the Reliquaries idea built in metal rather than grown — a banded brass cage clasping a great smoky quartz, studded with opal and garnet, rising from a rough malachite-veined block. A vessel made deliberately, for keeping.

Process

Metal, stone and cabochons were composed as separate studies, then assembled and relit so the brass reads as one continuous cage.

Availability

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