The same frontal gaze, the same declaration — but on a new material. Medusa in the AURA ring retains the sculptural precision of the 18kt gold-plated bronze relief — the intertwined serpents, the set of the lips, the line of the eyes — and rests it on a plexiglass base that changes the story. The ring body is light, contemporary, traversed by light. The weight surprises — the hand carries it with a new fluidity.
The round bezel distributes light uniformly across the entire relief — the scene reads from every angle. The GTc signature is engraved on the bezel.
On ivory, the warm tone carries the scene through gradations that shift in every piece: light blue fresh and clear; gold in warm consonance; pearl intimate; violet introducing depth. On black, the bronze lifts with graphic force that amplifies the forward gaze — a dark void making Medusa more intense: light blue is early morning, Medusa softening in the gentle dawn light; gold is the full dialogue between metal and relief, tone on tone, the face becoming all light; pearl diffuses quiet reflections, the most intimate version; violet is introspection, the threshold between matter and spirit. On tortoiseshell, the veins of the plexiglass change from piece to piece — tight and defined or soft and diffused, the striations creating harmonies with the intaglio colours: light blue opens towards morning; gold warms; pearl redistributes the light of the face; violet wraps in mystery. Every combination renews the expression.
The gaze that does not lower — carried forward by the lightness of a material that reveals what solid bronze kept within.