Interference Moth Earrings

A giant wood moth made temporary shelter in our studio the week we were studying Abbott’s interference work. This design is a more sculptural version of our original Interference earrings.

To explain wave phenomenon, Abbott adapted photogram techniques she had learned as Man Ray’s assistant in the 1920s. Combining a glass-bottomed ripple tank with an overhead flash, she projected shadows of oscillating waves onto unexposed photographic paper. The strong graphic black-and-white lines in Wave Pattern with Glass Plate lucidly reveal how energy pulses through water.

1 3/4” wide and 4” tall, silver earwire

Note colorways with one asterick * synthetic leather 

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