Golden Bloom EarringsLate August, when the garden has gone a little wild and the last of the black eyed Susans are leaning toward the fence that's the color. Not bright yellow, not gold exactly, but something in between. The color of warmth that knows it's fleeting. The color of sunlight caught in honey, held up to the window, just before you set it down. Momo Glassworks, an art studio in Northampton, Massachusetts, works in fused glass a process that involves layering

there was a diagram

That quality — iridescence as a physical phenomenon

Watchfulness that is not fear

a concentrated flash of the American West embedded in metal that will warm and patina with age

it had a conviction — that nature could be distilled into geometry without losing any of its life

Fan-shaped jewelry has a long

Not the vaulted ceiling

It distills

and everywhere

The components are hypoallergenic

Hold a prism to the window on a bright afternoon and watch what happens to the wall

Then it's gone