This oak seedling was modeled after real sprouts and leaves from the forest floor every step of the way! Leaves reflect the asymmetries, insect nibbles, and general chaos of nature.

The base features a copper acorn that has lost its cap sprouting a slender silver seedling. The acorn is surrounded and supported by hand-shaped copper leaves, still sporting the bright colors and dull finish of the final torch-work.

The seedling itself is brightly polished 0.925 sterling silver, rising sturdy but tremulous on a slim stem. When the surface it rests on is bumped, the leaves shiver fetchingly as if captured in a brisk breeze. You have to look pretty closely to catch all the details on the sprout, from future growing tips to the way the leaves organically split from the stem.

If you have never closely examined an oak seedling, you may not realize that their first three leaves have a very different shape than their mature leaves. Seeing the contrast in this piece of the mature copper leaves beneath with the shiny new silver growth above is extremely striking… some might even say transcendent.

This piece measures about 13 cm tall and about 11 cm at its widest point at the base. Copper is all untreated and will patina naturally over time. All silver is 0.925 sterling and can be kept polished bright or allowed to tarnish.