Shelf Life 2 works in tandem with Shelf Life 1, serving to boil women down to their simplest qualities, as society so frequently does, removing their deep complexities and nuances as they are unappealing and undesirable. Here, a ring brings about the initial concept which drove this piece to creation, the trophy wife. A ring is an object to be adorned on fanciful occasions or holds significance to the wearer. Reducing a woman to the form of a ring leaves her confined to the role of an accessory.