THE OBJECT
This ring is built around a rounded wooden form. It has the presence of a seed, a fruit, an eye, or a small planet resting on the hand. The polished surface reveals circular movement: rings, layers, traces of growth and time held inside the material.
The painted motif strengthens this sense of rhythm. It does not function as decoration only; it activates the surface. The circular pattern on top turns the wooden sphere into a centre, almost like a sun, a flower, or an origin point. The image seems to expand outward and return inward at the same time.
The contrast between the warm wooden ball, the pale repaired section and the darker ring band gives the object a sense of transition. It feels as if different states of matter and time have been brought together: growth, rupture, repair, touch and return.
THE VALUE
Cyclical Time
This ring is connected to the value Cyclical Time.
Cyclical Time is a way of understanding time through return, growth, repetition, decay and regeneration. It is not the time of speed, productivity or linear progress. It is the time of seeds, seasons, bodies, rituals, wounds, healing and recurrence.
The wooden sphere is essential to this value. Wood already carries time within itself. Its rings record growth. Its surface holds traces of age, touch and transformation. The round form suggests that time does not simply move forward; it circles, returns and begins again.
For the wearer, this value becomes tangible. The ring reminds us that not everything has to move faster. Some things need to ripen. Some meanings return. Some forms of healing happen through repetition, patience and renewed attention.
IN DIALOGUE WITH WANGECHI MUTU
This ring stands in dialogue with Wangechi Mutu, whose work repeatedly transforms bodies, landscapes, myths and materials into hybrid forms of becoming.
Mutu’s practice is not linear. Her figures often seem to emerge from several worlds at once: human, animal, vegetal, ancestral, futuristic and wounded. She does not present identity as fixed. She shows it as something that mutates, absorbs, breaks open and grows again.
This is where the dialogue with the ring becomes clear. The wooden sphere carries the memory of growth. The painted circular motif suggests origin, flower, sun, eye or seed. The object does not speak through a straight line, but through a centre that radiates and returns.
Mutu’s work for the 2026 Venice Biennale, The End, Where All began, EdEN, makes this connection even stronger. The title itself turns the end into a beginning. Eden is not treated as a lost paradise, but as a place where origin, responsibility, earth, body and future are reopened.
The ring echoes that logic on an intimate scale. It becomes a small object of return: a form that holds growth, damage and renewal in one body. It is not an illustration of Mutu’s work, but a wearable translation of the value her work makes visible: time as regeneration.
WITHIN THE PROJECT
Within the wider project, this ring functions as an interface between artistic knowledge, value and everyday life.
The aim is not to copy the visual language of Wangechi Mutu, but to translate what her work opens into a value that can be carried. In this case, that value is Cyclical Time: the understanding that endings can contain beginnings, and that what is damaged or displaced can return in another form.
As a wearable object, the ring brings this value out of the museum and onto the body. It can be seen in public space, shared through a QR code, and connected to a digital layer of knowledge. The ring becomes a small point of access to a larger artistic and cultural conversation.
It does not explain the artist. It opens a door.
RESONANCE WITH THE PRESENT WORLD
This ring resonates with a time in which linear ideas of progress feel increasingly exhausted.
We live in a world driven by acceleration: faster production, faster images, faster consumption, faster forgetting. Against that speed, this ring offers another rhythm. Its wooden form, circular image and organic presence suggest slowness, return and renewal.
Wangechi Mutu’s work is urgent because it also asks us to rethink origin and future. Her bodies and landscapes do not move cleanly from past to present to future. They fold time together. They show that what has been broken, displaced or transformed can reappear with new force.
The ring carries this same thought quietly. It does not present time as a straight path. It presents time as something held in matter, carried by the body, and renewed through attention.
Cyclical Time, here, is not repetition without change.
It is return with memory.
Growth after rupture.
A beginning hidden inside an ending
Specifications
Material: c
Ring sizes: EU 16–19
Weight: approx. 18–24 grams
Finish: hand-crafted; slight variations occur
Each ring is unique.
Use and Care: Avoid prolonged contact with water, perfume and chemical products. Store separately to prevent scratches. Clean gently with a soft, dry cloth. Surface wear may develop over time; this enhances the character of the work. This ring is a sculptural object and should be handled with care.
Shipping: Carefully packaged in a protective box. Includes certificate of uniqueness. Insured shipping. Delivery time 3–7 business days if in stock. International shipping available. Tracking information will be provided once dispatched.
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