Michael Tatom is a New Mexico based jeweler who has been into business for over three decades now. Living and working in Santa Fe, the artist uses photos of pets that people have lost and memorialized them in jewelry.
“Years ago, when I started showing on Etsy, I made whatever animals I felt strongly about but it didn’t take long before requests for specific animals started coming,” Michael shared on Bored Panda. “But it was the requests for pieces depicting beloved animals that had passed away that I felt compelled to do. For example, one of them was Border Collie Bugsy who was featured in National Geographic and had a huge vocabulary.”
Michael sales his work on his Etsy shop where he has in stock 179 pieces of jewelry, like fox, cat and dog rings, charms and pendants etc.
Scroll down and check out his work below.
