Frog Labyrinth, Kevin Coates (born 1950)

After being asked to illustrate the children’s book “Tuck Everlasting,” Kevin Coates created this jeweled brooch. Coates writes, “This frog, like the toad in Natalie Babbitt’s delightful ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ contemplates an infinitely repeated pattern of existence.” Indeed, the frog seems to peer into the very precipice of infinity, complete with arrows leading the way. On the opposite side of the brooch, more arrows direct the frog’s golden footprints towards the center, where a six-sided pyramid of carved moonstone gently glows. You can view other images of this work in the full object record.