Arch - Porcelain Earrings Dipped in Magdalena Wild Clay - Golden Colored Hoops
€58.00

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Details

Dimensions of the Arch Earrings:

Metal Hoops: 18mm

Porcelain Charms: 20mm x 8mm

Material Hoops: Medical Grade Stainless Steel

Material Charm: Porcelain dipped in Magdalena Wild Clay

Weight per Earring: 2 grams

*Take into consideration that this item is handmade and color and dimensions might differ from item to item

I have wore my golden hoop earrings personally for over two months, I have them on while sleeping and showering. The golden color is still intact!

Story

 

These earrings were designed to look effortless. That was the goal and the problem.

I wanted a piece where the hoop wasn’t just a finding, something bought and attached after the fact. I wanted the ceramic to be part of the hoop, integrated, intentional. Minimal in the way that only works when everything underneath it is exact.

Porcelain shrinks in the kiln. Not randomly, but ruthlessly. Every piece had to fit its hoop to the millimeter after firing, which meant four months of designing in Rhino, making molds, waiting, firing, and holding my breath. The necklace I’d designed first didn’t make it. The hole came out too small. That one taught me what I needed to know.

The ones that survived that process are these.

The brown pieces carry Magdalena clay, the same wild clay I foraged along the banks of the Magdalena River near Barranquilla, the city where I grew up. It has traveled from Colombia to Vienna before, into vases, into bowls. Now it’s here, in something you can wear.

Each earring is slip-cast in porcelain in my Vienna studio, fitted to Stainless Steel golden or silver hoops. Nobody will know how hard this was to make. That was the whole point.

About Magdalena Wild Clay:
These arch earrings are dipped in a slip made from wild clay I foraged along the banks of the Magdalena River, near Barranquilla, the city where I grew up in Colombia. The Magdalena is one of South America’s great rivers, and its sediment carries millennia of geological memory. When fired, this clay transforms into something unexpected: a surface that is simultaneously matte and metallic, catching light in a way that feels more mineral than ceramic.

Rather than a conventional glaze, the Colombian clay acts as both decoration and story, a thin skin of my origins laid over the body of my daily studio practice.