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Handmade Constellation Jewelry 

Belgian boutique Vdeux specializes in metal work, which explores the beauty of the archaic, of nature and our ancestors through her contemporary designs. Originally trained as a fashion designer, the store’s owner “Veronica” decided to translate her relic inspirations into handmade accessories. With a newfound passion and profession, she confesses:

I make jewelry as a way of researching subjects and ideas that move and interest me. Recurring themes in my work are: the soul of beautiful old objects, childhood memories, our ancestors, the ice age, nature, the night sky and the star constellations.”

The astronomical pieces pay homage to Greek mythology and its mystical and romantic meanings. You can find The Big Dipper, Orion, Aries, Taurus, and Leo among other asterisms and constellations in her Etsy shop.

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I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?