This was made in a two-week anodized aluminum class under Frankie Flood at Penland. In my beard pins I loved the humor and play that allowed me to fall in love with enameling. I wanted to use a similar challenge to engage my interaction with the new material of aluminum and its color accepting properties. What I thought the beards lacked was cohesiveness, or rather a way to stay and live together. I wanted to create a set of pins not to be sold from their partners. As a response to my thinking, I created a set of pins with an etched aluminum plate that shows where every pin's home lies. This results in the board showing ghosts of pins that have not found their way back.