{"product_id":"diatom-stud-earrings-by-bmf-jewelry","title":"Diatom Stud Earrings #3 by BMF Jewelry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiatoms are single cell phytoplankton. They eat sunlight and make air inside a delicate silica skeleton. Their shapes are so diverse you can identify a body of water by the diatoms. I've designed stamps of a few favorites, more to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are 1\/4\" across and have sterling posts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHandmade by \u003cspan\u003eBrittany Foster\u003c\/span\u003e of BMF Jewelry in Ely, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Making things more complicated, one broken saw blade at a time.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith innumerable influences, including cephalopods, industrial debris, and munitions, Brittany Foster makes things because she has always made things. As a youngster she was drawn to doing things with her hands. Jewelry seemed mysterious, which led her to wonder how people could possibly create such pieces with simple, manual tools. When she discovered there were also hammers and fire involved, it sealed the deal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving once been told that the human eye can detect a wave in a line to 0.03\", Foster took it as a challenge. She uses a standard jeweler's saw to cut all of her squiggly lines by hand. Her work is not fueled by electricity, but, much like Popeye, by spinach and beer. She also deploys the classic \"hit it with a hammer\" technique on her wrought pieces, which balances well with the meticulous work of cutting intricate curlicues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter taking community college courses in jewelry making, Foster went to the School for American Crafts at the Rochester Institute of Technology, graduating with honors in 2002. She then went on to set up an increasingly complicated shop, which now includes a small personal jungle. She has always worked as an independent jeweler with her own studio, developing her unique style through the time-honored method of trial and error.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI am a one woman shop from the Northwoods of Minnesota. After over a decade of work in Minneapolis and countless bespoke wedding pieces, I moved to the North Woods to find inspiration and connection between metal and nature. For ten years I have sought and gathered designs that bring my unique skills and perspective and the forest together. This work is the result.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eFind more of Brittany's work \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shopotlag.com\/search?type=product\u0026amp;q=brittany+foster\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BMF Jewelry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53198200504611,"sku":"G-25028","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3349\/0791\/files\/FullSizeRender_4d896b4f-33b1-4a69-b177-1b1c01b42af7.heic?v=1746635740","url":"https:\/\/shopotlag.com\/products\/diatom-stud-earrings-by-bmf-jewelry","provider":"Outside the Lines Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}