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Turn it one way: two lovers. Turn it the other: a skeleton.
A tiny 1500s ivory rosary bead — lovers on one side, death on the other, a hidden salamander carved into the skull.
A memento mori: a reminder that life is fleeting.
Original piece: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464299
I imagined the same idea, 500 years later — a wedding ring for the year 2125, when people can choose not to die.
Turn it one way: an embrace.
Turn it the other: a skull.
Same symbol. Same choice.
Not "will we die" — but "will we choose to grow old together, instead of living forever."
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