Poppy Drops Earrings (Sterling Silver)Georgia O'Keeffe once said she found she could say things with color and shapes that she couldn't say any other way. She was talking about poppies not exclusively, but often. Her massive close ups of petals and pistils forced people to slow down and really look at a flower, to see the architecture inside the softness, the geometry hiding in something everyone thought they already understood. The poppy has always carried that duality. Delicate and

It's something quieter than dramatic

It's an ancient technique

giving them a warm luster that suits the richness of Morris's palette

The earrings are cut from lightweight printed wood

where the boundary between two hues becomes the entire subject

which means you forget they're there until someone asks about them

Drive far enough west and the sky starts to change

And everything you look at seems to carry the memory of the whole season in it

and the light passing through it isn't filtered so much as transformed

It transmits them

twilight-rich background

with no bead core diluting the effect