BLACK!
'BLACK!'... I've returned to cutting our Tasmanian Spinel, which I've sourced from the old tin mining mullock heaps at Derby, in the north east of the state: I've never faceted it like this before, though, in a hemisphere; I usually cut it as checkerboards, or Mediæval rose cuts, or shallow cones, all seated low to the finger in rings, but I felt like raising its range into a sort of 'memento mori', Latin for 'remember, you must die', which is not seen as a negative, but as a reminder to live life to the full; the hemisphere of 80 facets (twice the number of quarantine days) atop a bezelled cup setting, together present as a sphere, a basic shape, from atoms through to planets, and, yes, including some viruses in between...