Beautiful

Elaine Ho Pyrite Pendant-$140

Beauty is a very subjective value judgement. Not all that is beautiful is also pretty. They are mutually exclusive terms in my opinion. Take for instance ... Newfoundland's landscape .. rugged, beat up, stoic, lonely and surrounded in stormcloud it is anything but reminiscent of the "prettiness" of flowers or of a bright and sun drenched day. You could, however, never negate that Newfoundland's landscape isn't breathtakingly beautiful. It is simply a different kind of beauty. I have always been partial to this "unpretty" beauty. One that is a little twisted and unsettled; a beauty with a morbidity and a darkness. This beauty is not always self-evident but is ever alluring. This beauty is rugged and uncut and it finds its roots in strength and in quirkiness rather than in ease or in cuteness.

This dark,wicked beauty is emblematic in the new mineral pieces Victoire got in from Elaine Ho.

Petrified Wood Pendant -$140

Amethyst Pendant - $140Tourmaline Quartz pendant -$140

Bursting out of metal "rib cages" are natural materials such as petrified wood, Pyrite and Quartz . The struggle of these materials against their silver rib cages is what lends them their intrigue.

They're rough, they're strong...they've got a sinister, wicked beauty.

I want one.
Until next time Victoirians.