My master’s project started as a material experiment, and during my research I realised that plants and flowers do not lose their charm when they wilt, when they die. Wilting is a natural part of their existence, and it is unavoidable for every flower; however, if we look carefully, we can find the beauty in this, too. This train of thought led me to explore, in my thesis, how grief and death may be expressed and processed through jewellery, from traditional mourning jewellery to contemporary ephemeral jewellery. I seek to answer questions such as: How did mourning jewellery – the pieces we think of when we hear this word – evolve? What was the purpose of mourning jewellery? What happened to these sophisticated pieces over the course of history? How have the artistic and social attitudes towards death changed?