{"product_id":"abalone-tide-earrings","title":"Abalone Tide Earrings","description":"\u003cp\u003eStand at the edge of a tide pool long enough and the whole world starts to shift. What looked like stone becomes shell. What looked like grey becomes green, then violet, then a flash of copper so bright it seems impossible that something alive made it. Abalone does this — it builds its own architecture out of light, layering nacre upon nacre until the surface becomes a small, quiet argument against every dull thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat iridescence has fascinated artists and naturalists for centuries. The Impressionists chased similar effects on canvas — Monet's late water lilies, with their dissolved edges and impossible colors, were really paintings about what happens when light refuses to sit still. Japanese craftsmen inlaid abalone into lacquerwork for generations, understanding that its beauty wasn't a single color but a conversation between dozens of them, shifting depending on where you stood and how the light fell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated Light captures that conversation here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese earrings are built from layered stainless steel and copper, with giclée-printed surfaces that reproduce the luminous, shifting palette of abalone shell in fine-art detail. The copper ear wires add warmth at the top and are hypoallergenic and nickel-free. At 2 inches from ear wire to tip and just 2 grams per earring, they move with you the way water moves — fluid, light, and alive with color that changes every time you turn your head.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted by Illustrated Light \u0026amp; DC Designs in Fort Collins, Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Illustrated Light \u0026 DC Designs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45726453071919,"sku":"008-E-10066","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/IMG-6240.jpg?v=1789933577","url":"https:\/\/haroldandhazel.com\/products\/abalone-tide-earrings","provider":"Harold \u0026 Hazel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}