"If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Leslie Shershow’s So Many Wishes reimagines the dandelion as both symbol and structure—a glittering embodiment of longing, fragility, and the seductive pull of sentimentality.

This luminescent brooch channels the fleeting moment before dispersal: when hope is still intact, wishes unspoken, and nothing has scattered yet. Constructed with her signature blend of machined precision and ornamental shimmer, So Many Wishes reflects Shershow’s ongoing interest in how memory, kitsch, and personal mythology collide.

The work begins with clean, iridescent strokes—breezy, beautiful, and predictable. But over time, the geometry splinters. Sentiment fractures into densely packed outlines and glimmering chaos. What once felt sublime becomes more complicated—more honest. A dark curve reappears, tracing the path of yearning that never quite lets go.

In GARDEN, Shershow’s dandelion isn’t about childhood nostalgia—it’s about the self-perpetuating nature of longing. We may never arrive at catharsis, but we still reach. We still blow the seeds. We still wish.