Echo Pearl Necklace

Who is listening, and who is heard? Long before we wore devices in our ears, we held shells there to listen for the sea. Echo brings the two together: vintage freshwater pearls and sterling spheres gathered around a cast technological form, with a melongena shell falling below on a removable pearl drop, like a sound still carrying from the water. Echo belongs to Future Fossil, a collection that asks what will remain of our digital age. Our devices begin in the earth, as copper in their circuits and minerals in their batteries. Here they return to it in bronze and sterling silver, paired with pearl and shell. The obsolete made precious: an intimate artifact of the world we are making now. Material: sterling silver Stone: vintage freshwater pearls, melongena shell Dimensions: 17" length +3" removable shell charm drop Made to order in San Francisco. Photos by Anna-Alexia Basile.