Oyster with Pearl Ornament ELON Consider it the Royal Ontario

Consider it the Royal Ontario Museum's natural history wing rendered in miniature: all spectacle

and Chive's hand-blown glass version passes that test at over three inches across

Blush Pink here isn't the flat pink of a greeting card

They know who they are and they have never once been uncertain

The Royal Ontario Museum keeps scale models behind glass for the reason anybody builds one: at that size a whole vessel fits inside your attention at once

Oyster with Pearl Ornament ELON Consider it the Royal OntarioAn oyster ornament is a small joke about value a rough shell that spent its whole life manufacturing one perfect thing, now hung on a tree so you can admire the thing and the labor at once. Rendered in hand blown glass, shell and pearl sit together, made with the patience Chive has applied to glass since 2004. There is a rhyme there we like: two decades of blowing glass is its own slow accretion, layer on layer, until something clear emerges. TIFF