Rose Window Mandala bracelet

I am in the process of making a bracelet which will form part of a set for my Rose Window Mandala jewellery. There are a few issues which have arisen and are delaying me from finishing it. The main problem is that the enamel becomes dark and dull when placed on the arm whereas with the earrings the light was allowed to shine through and illuminate the colours.
This brought me to a few options I can either use a backing plate or enamel the back white.

Enamelled rose window test piece

This design is derived from the center section of the un-enamelled piece on the left. It is similar to a rose window in that only a portion of the design is used to create the actual window.

Spiral of Nature

These are some test pieces I have been working on. It is a design which resembles the spiral whorls found in nature such as in Cacti and Sunflower heads. These spirals are diretly linked to the fibonacci sequence which is a series of numbers that occurs frequently in nature. It starts at one and is brought about by adding the previous 2 numbers ie. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89. Cacti's and sunflowers contain this sequence as they generally have a certain amount of spirals going anti-clockwise (such as 55) and a certain amount going clockwize ( such as 34) which correlates with the numbers in the fibonacci sequence, this is evidence that nature follows a specific set of mathematically and geometrically based proportions or ratio's.

I made this same design before in copper so i decided to make one in silver and enamel the punched holes. This picture shows the piece with a polished silver plate behind it to refract the light so it illuminates the coloured enamel, this gives it an Opalescent glow and has quite an aquatic feel to it.
I am not sure yet what this element will become I may use it for earrings or a pendant but there are a few issues that need to be resolved such as how to create an interesting and finished edge, for now i'm gonna let it stew for a bit.

Rose Window Mandala earings

I wanted to experiment with other Mandala patterns other than the flower of life, I had previously found a decorative design on paper which really appealed to me, at a later stage I realised why I was so attracted to it which was because it resembled the squash blossom design found in Native American jewellery, it consists of stones being placed around a central stone and more being placed around the inner circle creating a radiating, circular, Mandala-like pattern.
After a few unsuccessful test pieces I found the piece that worked best; it consisted of 3 rows of larger holes bordered by open pinhole apertures. I created smaller and simplified elements for the large elements to hang from so as to add to the visual appeal of the earrings by creating an elongated quality so they did not appear to be one large clumsy element hanging from the ear.
I wanted to incorporate colour into it as Mandalas usually are colourful, so I slumped opaque glass beads into it which went transparent, when held to the light I was reminded of Rose windows.
I did more experimental test pieces to explore other Mandalas as well as to create accurate depictions of rose windows.