This series of wearable sculptures, created by the chasing and repoussé technique, is inspired by botanical specimens significant in the history of ornamentation such as acanthus leaves, sunflowers and daisies. Expanding on ideas of the wearable, my work examines interactions between the body and ornamentation of the body.  However, instead of using these symbolically rich botanicals in miniature, as the basis of ornamenting a traditional form of jewelry, I have developed a life size form for my pieces firstly, from the plant itself--the original source of the centuries-old ornamentation—and secondly, from the shape it necessarily must take as a piece worn on the human body.