These 'Mexicali Teresa' hoop earrings are made from sterling silver and loop just behind the ear.
The earrings feature a geometric carving all the way along the top side of the hoop.
Dimensions - Approx 22mm inner diameter x 2mm wide x 1.8mm thick
Kate Higgins is a Melbourne-based fine jeweller, also known under the moniker Eli Speaks.
Higgins’ aesthetic is strikingly crisp, clean and angular. She borrows architectural influences from the Art Deco period and, in recent works, ancient Mexican buildings. And who is ‘Eli’? In Higgins’ own words: “The name Eli comes from an ancestor of Kate’s, Eli Higgins. He lived in Kent, England during the late 1800’s. He was curiously mute, and had an apparent curse on him due to a promise made by his father, to his mother, that should he be born a girl (he had 3 older sisters), the father would never speak to him. As it turned out, the father welcomed the son he wished for with open arms... but the son would never utter a word to him. This strange case of selective mute-ness was recorded in the Medical Lancet of the time.”
