Tiny Erica Jewelry by Erica Montejo has long focused on abstracting organic forms like flowers and seed pods into streamlined geometric shapes that are all hand-fabricated using 14k gold, sterling silver, and gemstones. The resulting pieces are nods to nature’s architectural beauty, and their abstract traits allow the wearer to impart their own special meanings and memories onto them.

Recently Montejo has felt a deeper kinship with the flora all around her in her garden and she aims to honor it more directly — this shift involves mimicking nature more literally in some of her latest pieces, emphasizing and celebrating the small, intricate details of the natural world and preserving it in precious metal.