GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — As Grand Rapids gears up for ArtPrize, one of the largest art festivals in the country, hundreds of pieces of artwork are beginning to fill venues across the city.

Among them is a life-sized female skeleton encrusted with thousands of donated pieces of jewelry.

The work, titled No Ordinary Love, comes from London-based artist Elizabeth Eade, who traveled nearly 4,000 miles to showcase her creation during her first-ever visit to Grand Rapids.

Over the past year, Eade received letters and packages from nearly 1,000 women across the world. Each delivery contained jewelry, sequins, rhinestones or trinkets — items once tied to moments of love, grief, joy or memory. A belly button piercing once belonged to a woman’s late best friend. An heirloom wedding tiara, a m

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