Interference Tiny Moth Earrings

A giant wood moth made temporary shelter in the studio the week Karole + Grady were studying Abbott’s interference work. 

 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. 3/4” wide and 1 3/4” tall, stainless steel earwire

OROPOPO is a husband and wife duo who make jewelry, bags and objects in their Albuquerque studio drawing from the iconography of the American Southwest.