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  Textured Silver Stud Earrings
 
 
Handcrafted by Jen Burrall in Portland, Maine, the Textured Silver Stud Earrings are made with recycled sterling silver and imprinted with a leaf. Like veins in any living organism, the branching structures in a leaf are the paths along which life flows. With these earrings you can wear your heart on your sleeve!

Have you ever seen a time-lapse video of plants growing? One can easily imagine a sense of human longing and need in the way their leaves follow the sun. Over the course of a day, they reach and strain against their earth-bound roots, turning their thirsty faces to catch the full warmth of the sun.

Plants synthesize food out of sunlight and carbon dioxide, and it is that process that makes animal and human life possible. And, like us, plants have veins that are vital pathways. Branching out in a leaf, they carry organic compounds like sugar down to the roots, and from the roots spread more veins that carry water and minerals back up to the leaves. They create a circulatory system that has a pattern mirrored in all breathing things, in the fertile river delta, and even in the roads that take us from place to place.

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