This is not a conventional earring. It is a piece of wearable sculpture that happens to begin with a pearl.
A single continuous sterling silver wire starts at a 10mm silver-grey freshwater pearl, sweeps upward in one unbroken arc to the ear, passes through the piercing, and curves back on itself, almost returning to where it began. The wire describes the same rising line as a cliff face from the waterline, a shape that only works because every curve is in exactly the right place.
The pearl sits at the front. The sweeping wire becomes the earring. Nothing is hidden and nothing is wasted.
In silver-grey the pearl carries the colour of the sea on a heavy day, shifting from dove grey to something almost platinum depending on the light. The cool tones of the pearl and the sterling silver wire work as one continuous piece, the metal and the pearl inseparable in both construction and spirit.
These are for the woman who understands that the most considered jewellery doesn't announce itself loudly. It simply stops people when they look closely enough.
Sterling silver, approximately 45mm, 10mm silver-grey freshwater pearl. Handmade in New Zealand by Sue Dunmore, Porini Design Studio.