Oak Leaf Earrings
£40.00 – £50.00
Oak Leaf Earrings available in either Silver, Brass or Oxidised Copper.
Taking the smallest size of leaf in the collection, these oak leaf earrings are dainty and light.
They are individually hand cut from recycled sheet metal with a fine jewellers saw. I then polish them to a smooth finish before being doming and curving the metal.
Each pair of leaves mirror each other in shape beautifully.
I handcraft the earwires from EcoSilver wire and use a high heat to ball one end of the wire. This feature holds the oak leaf in place, allowing it to move and dangle freely.
A percentage of each sale from this collection goes towards supporting a long-term participatory artwork by the artist Colin Andrews. The artwork in question is entitled akin – click on the tab above for more information.
You also can find out about the story behind this collection in this journal post.
Colin Andrews is an artist working across a range of media including video, photography, installation, sound and light. His works is conceptually driven and created for a variety of contexts and domains. Ideas often address issues of perception, time, memory and uncertainty.
akin is an old Scots word meaning, ‘consisting of oaks’.
In this work hundreds of oak trees, grown from acorns originally gathered in Fife, are to be re-planted across Fife. Individuals, families and businesses of the region are to be engaged in the planting and care of the trees in the gardens, parks, common lands and green spaces of the Kingdom, participating in a physical and symbolic cycle of growth, nurture, return, participation and sustainability.
For more information about akin see:
http://www.colinandrews.org/project/akin/
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