Orbit Kinetic Ring
Monica Moreno
Major: Jewelry/Metalworking
Genre/Medium: metalwork (sterling silver, bronze, brass, cubic zirconia)
About the work: Created using bronze, sterling silver, brass, and cubic zirconia, this piece was inspired by the main objective of the Psyche mission: to explore. We are sending a small spacecraft into outer space to explore something much bigger. The fact that we can do something like this is still amazing to me, and the possibilities of what we may discover about the Psyche asteroid is beyond exciting. This wearable sculpture pays homage to the traveling spacecraft and to the asteroid that we want to learn more about. It was difficult to scale down the dimensions of something like an asteroid or spacecraft to fit a tiny ring, but I hope that the main idea behind this tiny sculpture is apparent. Read more…
