Chrysanthemum VII - Medium A132440 Handcrafted in Asheville

Handcrafted in Asheville

Artist Julie Shaw has perfected her fabrication process over years of jewelry-making: each piece is polished

the flower blooms with the dawn and falls to earth in the evening

These colorful earrings are versatile and reversible: each element can be taken off its hoop and turned around to display different colors

The process includes many thin organic paint layers poured on top of one another

Chrysanthemum VII - Medium A132440 Handcrafted in AshevilleThis image is part of the artist's ongoing Floraphilia project, which was first published in the prestigious Lenswork Magazine in July of 2010. A second black and white portfolio was published in 2014, and a third portfolio, in color, was published in Seeing in Sixes in 2017. A new Floraphilia portfolio is being reproduced in the May 2018 digital issue of Shadow & Light Magazine. Each photograph is a numbered and signed limited edition archival print