Poppy Drops Earrings (Gold Plated)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. The red ones she painted in the 1920s enormous, engulfing, almost confrontational in their beauty weren't botanical illustrations. They were arguments. Arguments that something as common as a wildflower could hold as much gravity as any landscape, any cathedral, any portrait of a powerful man. The poppy

The bare branches hold their shapes like calligraphy against a pale sky

Nina Designs — a woman-owned studio with a deep commitment to sustainable craft — rendered these in sterling silver and bronze

A yellow could be aggressive

applied here at a scale you can wear behind your ear

They hand-crush semiprecious gemstones — in this case

It's an invitation

The brass carries a warm gold tone that deepens over time

an animal that exists at the intersection of engineering and grace

It was once something else

It's the negative space

Trecy Bleich

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