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The Magpie Loot Ring
This beautiful and unique ring of mine celebrates traditional folk lore where these magnificent creatures are portrayed as cheeky thieving rascals. I find magpies endlessly fascinating because of the rich and complex social lives they lead. Just like us there responses and interaction with the world and everything in it are more driven by their inert curiosity than by darwinian survivalist tendencies. Darwin is known to have admitted that the essentialist nature of the human consciousness…
