Extinction Brooch Series
With fewer than one hundred individuals remaining in the wild, the Amur leopard is among the rarest and most endangered big cats on Earth. This hand-woven brooch captures its ghost-like presence in the snowy forests of the Russian Far East. Hundreds of tiny glass beads in smoky golds, soft creams, and deep blacks echo the leopard’s distinctive rosette pattern, translating its camouflage into a tactile, intimate form.
The rounded, almost crouched posture suggests alert stillness, an animal poised between movement and disappearance. Subtle shifts in colour and density mirror fur, shadow, and light, while the meticulous beadwork reflects the patience required to notice, protect, and remember such fragile lives.
Both tender and haunting, the brooch stands as a quiet memorial to a species on the edge of erasure, inviting care, attention, and responsibility toward what remains.