7.5 cm x 3.3 cm x 0.7 cm, 0.13 oz each
Recycled low tarnish sterling silver, stainless steel fasteners, niobium ear wires
The Circogonia-Epubulia design began with hand drawings based on Ernst Haeckel’s 1862 illustrations of microscopic sea creatures. Mental deconstruction of the zooplankton during the hand drawing phase morphed the creatures into flat layers which would later become a 3D form. CAD software ingested the layer drawings and was used to further modify and output individual layer files for a laser cutting machine. Each rough-cut sterling silver layer was hand shaped, textured, and finished before the Radiolaria was rebuilt with industrially produced stainless steel screws and nuts.