Ginkgo Grove BarretteBefore there were flowering plants, before there were grasses or fruit trees or anything resembling a modern forest, there were ginkgos. Two hundred and seventy million years old, give or take older than the dinosaurs, older than most mountain ranges. The species alive today is essentially unchanged from its fossil record. When you hold a ginkgo leaf, you are holding a shape that predates nearly everything you know. That kind of deep time has made the

It was the red of communion wine held up to candlelight

a sense of pointing toward something

before the sun burns the haze away

These earrings carry that ironwork forward

Mosaico Jewels works within that lineage

unfurling as if shape itself could be soft

By the 1920s and '30s

They hand-crush semiprecious gemstones — in this case

He called it nothing less than a revolution of everyday life

undisturbed

Wassily Kandinsky sent a questionnaire to everyone at the Bauhaus

and the posts are sterling silver — hypoallergenic and nickel-free