{"id":15357,"date":"2018-08-29T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15357"},"modified":"2018-08-22T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:18:35","slug":"small-circles-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/small-circles-of-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Circles of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Something else that really speaks to me is an expression\u00a0of simple joy. Think about some of the favorite moments in your life. They aren\u2019t always\u2014maybe are not even usually\u2014the big elaborate parties or exotic trips. They tend to be little things like that morning your granddaughter snuck out of her bed to come curl up next to you because she was so excited that you were visiting. It\u2019s the time you and your sister laughed so hard at something the dog did that you literally fell out of your chair. It\u2019s the wonder you feel that day in spring when the first flowers show themselves. Simple little joys are such disproportionately delightful and treasured things.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say for sure that the emotion of simple joy is what Denada Palla<\/a> intended when she created these sweet little earrings but I can’t imagine, if it’s not, that\u00a0it’s not something related. The stems the flowers stand on are not straight but wiggle just a little bit like they are starting to dance. The red poppies float to the top of their little canvas like they\u2019re ready to fly off. The movement created by the imperfection of the lines and the proximity of the edge contributes greatly to that sense of joyfulness, as does the not-quite-alike pair. The uncomplicated design keeps that joy front and center.<\/p>\n

Denada hails from Greece where she creates simple, floral-inspired jewelry which she sells on <\/a>Etsy<\/a>. Her sense of fun and, that which I interpret as joy, comes across on her Facebook page<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These earrings by Denada Palla radiate a sense of joy, with simple and imperfect lines creating the movement of the red poppies, as seen on The Polymer Arts blog, www.ThePolymerArts.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6047,92,6048,273,519,1129,388,640,920],"class_list":["post-15357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-denada-palla","tag-earrings","tag-edge","tag-floral","tag-joy","tag-lines","tag-movement","tag-polymer","tag-simplicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3ZH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15366,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions\/15366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}