Sculptural Ear Cuff

£4,000

Description: At a microscopic level, skin is never still. Under feeling — under anxiety, tenderness, exposure — it shifts visibly at the surface. It raises, clusters, pulls tight. The ear cuff begins at this scale: each granule of cast silver a cell, a pore, a unit of sensation rendered in metal and pressed against the body’s most sensitive architecture. The pearls emerge from within the mass as if grown there. Dark, lustrous, irregular in size — not placed but inhabited, as though the piece has generated them from the inside out. This is not jewellery that sits on the ear. It is something that has chosen it. Shaped to the contour of a specific body, it presses into the cartilage the way feeling presses into skin — quietly, persistently, impossible to ignore.

Lead time of 1 week.
Measurements: 6 x 4 x 2 cm
Condition: New
Womens: US OS
Color: Silver
Pick up: Old Selfridges Hotel
Seller: Eliz Fan
Eliz Fan explores the relationship between imagery, memory, and personal identity through jewellery — objects that accompany the body through time, holding emotional meaning and cultural memory in form and material. Of Taiwanese heritage, born and raised in Hong Kong, now based in London, Fan brings a lived experience of cultural intersection to her practice. Her Masters in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art refined a technical language precise enough to hold the weight of that history — work that is quiet in its execution, exacting in its intention. Central to this practice are philosophies rooted in East Asian thought: wabi-sabi, the appreciation of imperfection and transience, and ichigo ichie, the awareness that every moment is singular and unrepeatable. These ideas shape an approach to making that values the quiet, the incomplete, and the overlooked — worn surfaces, natural structures, the softness of things that resist resolution. Themes of calmness, solitude, vulnerability, and reflection run through the work. Each piece emerges from an attentiveness to small, raw beauties: the kind that exist beneath everyday life rather than above it. The practice also holds the meeting of East and West — where traditional Chinese and Japanese ornamental languages are drawn through personal perspective and lived experience. Historical patterns and dreamlike imagery are not reproduced but inhabited, allowed to exist in a contemporary and intimate context.