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Angel Wings Earrings

Item P11629

$98.00

Description

Let these unique hand-painted earrings remind you of the loved ones and ancestors whose spirits guide us every day. Artist Vania Ruiz creates each piece in her coastal Chile studio using lightweight resin and heavenly hints of metallic gold. Please accept slight variations in these individually handcrafted earrings.

Details + Dimensions

• Handmade in Chile
• Resin
• Post back
• 1-3/8"L

Story

Chilean artist Vania Ruiz trained as an architect, but found her true calling as a jewelry designer after studying goldsmithing and learning to work with resin.

“Suddenly everything began to make sense,” says Ruiz, “the calm I felt while I was drawing, the need to build ideas with my hands, memories of playing in the botanical gardens with my mother and making mermaids out of tree bark or building little sculptures from branches and seeds.”

Ruiz collects unconventional natural materials on her travels, in her neighborhood, and from local markets and uses them to create wearable works of art.

She is drawn to working with resin because of the way it allows her to play with light. The reflections and transparency make resin not just a canvas for her mixed media vision, but an essential element of the composition. Ruiz's architectural training informs the structure of her pieces. "The resin reminds me a lot of reinforced concrete," she says of the challenge of pouring resin into shapes made of sterling silver.

Each piece is handcrafted by Ruiz in her home studio in Viña del Mar, on Chile’s Pacific coast. Seeds, twigs, seaweed, alpaca fiber, and more all become part of these small worlds, each with a story to tell.

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Not what I expected

Loved these when I saw the picture in the catalog. But when I got them I was disappointed. They seemed so delicate in the photo but in reality they are acrylic coated which cheapens their appearance . I was going to return them but they grew on me. Still,I cannot recommend them. They are not worth the price tag.