GONIOCHROMISM

dichroic glass

© Samuel Burckhardt

pretty scales

“Natural abalone pearl from New Zealand. This pearl comes from the Chatham Islands off the coast. The nutrients and cold temperatures of the water here make the colours of the pāua particularly intense and gorgeous. There is a very limited quota of wild pāua harvested by divers every year and only very rarely do they produce a pearl at all, and one this size and this shape would have taken over 20 years to grow.”

“These have a neat, suble shimmer. I took photos in shade to show the peacock shimmer, the camera flash washed it out. Top drilled to hang like fringe, most are a little wild, with points shooting off the bottom.”

labradorite opalite fluorite

Buzao

photograph by Jessica K. Goodman