09/29/2026
I Know You Rider
A mourning ring made in memory of my aunt’s fiancé, Kenny, and in celebration of the life they shared.
Her great love is horses. His was motorcycles, and he was a lifelong Deadhead.
Around the ring, a horse and a skeleton riding a motorcycle travel in the same direction, forever following one another. Two riders, endlessly chasing each other.
The horse’s mane flows into ornamental scrollwork, wrapping around the motorcycle’s handlebars and connecting the two. The motorcycle’s exhaust dissolves into that same flowing scrollwork, turning hair, smoke, and wind into a single continuous current around the ring.
The imagery became tied to I Know You Rider, and especially to its themes of departure, being missed when you’re gone, wandering, and continuing onward. The song’s March winds became part of how I began to understand the story: wind moving through the horse’s mane, trailing behind the motorcycle, carrying memory forward and keeping the two riders connected.
A piece about grief, but also about movement, love, and a life worth remembering.
“I know you rider, gonna miss me when I’m gone.”
Made in platinum and 24k yellow gold, entirely hand engraved and chased, with the beads and settings raised by hand as well. Kenny’s ashes are held behind each of the 24k gold sections, physically becoming part of the ring.
The central diamond is a stone Kenny gave to her. It’s surrounded by pink and purple sapphires, along with their birthstones, amethyst and ruby.
