Why an Anthurium Leaf Earring Isn't a Photo of a Leaf
I could paint a leaf by copying a photo. A lot of people do, and it looks fine from a distance. But it's missing something, because a photo only shows you what a leaf looks like. It doesn't tell you why.
What the leaf is actually doing
An anthurium leaf sparkles a little, if you catch it in the right light. That's not decoration. Those are tiny cells on the surface, and their job is protection — they help the leaf avoid overheating and stop it from losing too much water through transpiration.
I know this from my horticulture studies — years of observing leaves and digging into the literature, and honestly it's a learning process I don't think I'll ever finish. There's always more sitting under the surface of a leaf than you'd guess just from looking at a photo of one.
What I do differently because I know this 
When I paint an anthurium, a philodendron, a monstera, ect. I'm not trying to reproduce a picture. I'm trying to reproduce a behavior — where the light catches and stops, how the sheen sits differently near the veins than it does across the flat of the leaf, why the surface looks slightly different depending on how much water that leaf is actually holding onto that day. The same goes for the orchid blooms: the surface isn't uniform, and it shouldn't read as uniform in resin either.
This is the part that doesn't show up in a product photo. It's why two "identical" leaf earrings from me are never actually identical — because no two real leaves are.
The part I can't fake
I notice detail almost compulsively — the kind of noticing that doesn't really turn off, even when I'd like it to. Most of the time that's exhausting. In this specific corner of my life, it's the entire point. Same instinct whether I'm looking at a leaf, testing a material, or working out why one batch of something turned out different from another — I want to know the actual mechanism, not just the result.
I'm not going to turn this whole post into an explanation of what that means for me — that's a longer conversation, for another time. But I don't want to keep pretending the "botanical accuracy" people compliment is just a nice turn of phrase. It's a direct result of how my brain pays attention, for better and worse.
The point of all this
From far away, a leaf earring just looks like a nice little thing.
That's fine — it's allowed to work at that distance too. But it's actually made to be seen up close, the same way the leaf itself only gives up its reasons once you stop walking past it and actually look. That's the
whole brand, if I'm honest. Look closer. There's usually a reason.
Handmade in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Small numbered series, shipped across the EU.