These earings  were chosen for their holes.  Both were hand crafted. The silver ones I bought in Perth around 1995, and the gold ones in London 2005.  Both are by Australian designers whose names have totally gone from memory so if you know whose work either of these earrings  are, please let me know and I will update this post with accreditation.  I wear each pair very often.  Their simple designs of a pattern of holes on nice shapes appealed to me then as much as they do now.   The gold ones I freely admit may well have influenced my punching of leather to add to fabric in this little Timetracks piece,:

but, that’s  really tough on the right hand and forearm, even with thin leather like this.  I am though my leather punching phase, largely.

To every hole there is a foreground through which the viewer can see a background which might be up close, or stretch into the distance.  I know this is totally basic, but still something to think about.