'What She Cut Before Breakfast'

There is a particular kind of abundance that doesn’t announce itself. The woman who has a garden knows it: you walk out in the morning before anything else, in whatever you slept in, and the garden offers you crêpe myrtle and yellow yarrow and forget-me-nots and moss all at once. No occasion. Just Tuesday.

The work of this piece is the work of negotiation. Four completely different botanical personalities deciding how they want to exist next to each other for the rest of time. Crêpe myrtle is extravagant. Yellow yarrow is direct. Forget-me-nots are gentle and insistent. Moss doesn’t negotiate — it simply is. Getting them all to settle into something true, in clear resin where everything shows, took the patience of someone who has managed many strong personalities at once.

What arrived is the casual abundance of a real garden — the kind that gives you everything before you’ve had coffee.

This pendant is for the woman who has learned that the most extravagant things in her life are also the most ordinary.