Forged Feather Earrings
Julie Merrill$95.00
Brass or copper feather earrings with sterling silver spine and earwire.
- Approximately 1 3/4″ long
- Forged, fabricated, fused, and soldered
- Matching necklace available
- Made in NC
Description
This is a simple, yet powerful design of a much loved motif, the feather. Julie Merrill specializes in mixed metal jewelry and accessories, using steel, silver, brass, bronze, and copper. Through forging, fusing, soldering, and riveting, she creates ancient yet contemporary designs to form objects of protection, beauty, emotion, and narrative. Each month, she contributes funds to plant trees in the Amazonian rain forest, in order to off-set her carbon footprint and assist in healing our environment.
I specialize in mixed metal jewelry and accessories, using steel, silver, brass, bronze, and copper. Through forging, fusing, soldering, and riveting, I create ancient yet contemporary designs. I incorporate the textures of bones, seeds, stones, feathers, and quills into my metalwork, creating life and story. I also include industrial elements such as clock gears, bullets, keys, and machine parts that juxtapose natures’ sacred beauty and suggest a mysterious curiosity within the human spirit. I create to reveal the quaint ruins of past and ethnic cultures to form objects of protection, beauty, emotion, and narrative.
Description
This is a simple, yet powerful design of a much loved motif, the feather. Julie Merrill specializes in mixed metal jewelry and accessories, using steel, silver, brass, bronze, and copper. Through forging, fusing, soldering, and riveting, she creates ancient yet contemporary designs to form objects of protection, beauty, emotion, and narrative. Each month, she contributes funds to plant trees in the Amazonian rain forest, in order to off-set her carbon footprint and assist in healing our environment.
