'The White Garden'

Vita Sackville-West planted her white garden at Sissinghurst in 1950 and called it the most difficult garden to make well. Not because white is absent of color — it contains them all — but because it demands that restraint be the whole argument. Every other garden lets you solve problems with contrast. The white garden has nowhere to hide. The form has to be perfect because the form is all there is.

This bezel holds baby’s breath and pale botanicals pressed into clear resin — cream, ivory, the white that has a little green in it, the white that is almost not white at all. It is the quietest piece in the studio. It is also the most exacting, because the woman who reaches for white instead of color knows exactly what she is doing. She has thought about it. She has made the harder choice.

This bracelet is for the woman who understands that restraint is not the absence of abundance — it is a different kind of it.