Just after sunset, a band of rose and violet settles above the deep blue of the earth's own shadow. Astronomers call it the Belt of Venus: the sky caught mid-transition, ordered and fleeting. This ring holds that moment in stone.
Eleven baguette Yogo Sapphires held in an ordered structure trace that gradient between Earth and sky and beyond. Like a ladder leading into the stars, the influences behind it are unapologetically speculative: the impossible skylines of science fiction, the cut and drape of high fashion, the chrome fuselages of pulp-era starships promising futures that never arrived. Each contributes the same instinct. Beauty as engineering. Ornament with load-bearing intent.
The shank carries the darker lineage of its influences. Rhythmic bars and bright cut settings owe their cadence to the biomechanical work of H.R. Giger, where the mechanical and the living intersect. Beneath the geometric repetition, subtle curves rise and pull, alluding to an organic form moving just under the surface, as if the metal were skin over something breathing.