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These beautiful earrings by the Japanese artist Asagi Maeda are from the series Whatโ€™s in Your Shopping Bag? A Pearl Necklace and a Bouquet ๐Ÿ’. "I was asked to make square earrings to go with my department bangle bracelet,โ€ explains Maeda. โ€œSo I made the shopping bag earrings. In your bag, the feeling, the dream, and the love is also packed with the actual products. They are sometimes even more precious to us."

Caption: Asagi Maeda, Whatโ€™s in Your Shopping Bag? A Pearl Necklace and a Bouquet ๐Ÿ’, 2021, earrings, sterling silver, 18-karat gold, Plexiglas, pearls, pink tourmaline, photo courtesy of the artist
Available from Mydaybyday Gallery

Here's your chance at fame and fortune! The biennial AJF Young Artist Award offers a prize of US$7,500 for the winner and US$1,000 for each of the four finalists, as well as an exhibition at Schmuck in March 2022. Ambitious contemporary jewelry artists age 35 and under are invited to apply for this international prize in contemporary art jewelry, which acknowledges promise, innovation, and individuality, and advances the careers of rising artists. Take yours to the next level by getting your work in front of the jurors: collector and gallerist Karen Rotenberg, curator Chequita Nahar, and 2020 Young Artist Award winner MJ Tyson.

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