Medusa Ring (2009. IT) Ring 143.10 - a photo on Flickriver

Medusa Ring (2009. IT) Ring 143.10

            Thank you Dorkas for modelling!!!
This ring was inspired by Medusa the beautiful woman who turned men to stone if they looked at her. She had snakes on her head otherwice she looked very attractive but she was evil. Finally Perseus menaged to kill her using a mirror shield to keep his eye on her instead of looking directly into the face. He cut her head off and used it as an armour as it still had the lethal power. Later he gave the head to Athena who fixed it on her shield. I find the story very impressive and symbolic.
The head of Medusa was often used in the ancient word on doors to keep away the evil.

In Italian and in Hungarian and probably in many other languages jellyfish is called "medusa". Probably because the look and the paralizing touch of it. I did not follow the traditional Medusa representations in my ring, it reather features a jellyfish. 

I worked about three days on the ring's body: the patterns, the lining with the eye soldered into the band, the light chamber under the big stone and the fabricated elements. On the next day I started to prepare the mountings and in the evening I begun to set the stones. Then I accidently broke the collar of the ring... Next day I removed the stones and mountings and by the evening I was where I messed it up. Then I messed it up again! Yesterday I started to work on it again, and finally I finished it by today's morning with no sleep. The head of the Medusa is on my bench!!

The size of the ring is 6.5 (US). There is my eye mark on the inside of the band.
It weights 15.9 grams.
The diameter of the big garnet is 11 mm. The 4 small garnets on the moving collar of the ring head are 3 mm in diameter.
The hight of the piece from to bottom to the top of the stone is 37 mm.
The width is 58 mm.
The ring band is 5 mm wide. 
   

Taken on: February 1, 2009

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Camera: Nikon D40, f/4.5, 1/8 sec, 18mm (=27mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D40
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.125 sec (1/8)
Focal Length:	18mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
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