Returning Tide Pink World Tourmaline Earrings

Here is what tidal water does to me. I can study an incoming tide. I watch as water advances, as water flows, I watch rocks and dock-posts and watch the curve or curl of water as water flows into the bay. I’m intrigued by standing flow lines, as water loops around fixed objects. Our earrings capture the flow line in gold. They are like a snapshot of living tidal moments.

Our family has a summer cottage at Higgins Beach in Scarborough Maine. Four generations of our family have returned to the beach for nearly 100 years. Each year in June I prep the land and cottage for summer.  I work hard. I work steady until the tide enters the tidal creek where our cottage is located, and then I sit and watch. It doesn’t matter what time of day the tide comes in, its arrival is a matter of importance I never tire of. There is something so compelling about the rising tide…the certainty, the predictability, its strength, the moon is pushing pulling the water to shore and although I can’t see the invisible force its power is obvious. I love to watch this surge of water that returns to flood the land twice a day. Water as it flows in and particularly around the edges of docks, creates flow lines. I see the flow lines in these earrings, which we call the Returning Tide.