Light a Candle in the Old Temple

Light a Candle in the Old Temple is a slim, domed sterling silver ring with a brushed surface interrupted by a single oval field of high mirror polish. The form draws on ecclesiastical priest rings, holding a quiet, devotional scale against the body.  

The primary gesture of the piece is return: the repeated act of tending, of lighting a candle in a space whose structure has already eroded. The polished oval registers a moment of illumination without a source, while the brushed silver absorbs light, holding memory rather than radiance.  

Within Holding Pattern, this ring addresses devotion without release and holding as persistence rather than motion. It marks a refusal to reorient, remaining tethered to an absence and circling the same coordinates of faith, memory, and loss. A diptych with Kneeling Figure in Silver, it functions as an architectural counterpoint to bodily impression – an interior act of devotion, sustained quietly after belief has begun to decay.