Photo Shoots for Tuman Jewelry
The Magnum Opus collection, the name of which means «a great work» in Latin, was inspired by alchemy, a magical science or scientific magic. The collection has seven rings representing each of the stages of creating the Philosopher’s stone. Like alchemists who subordinate nature to their power, in the shooting I decided to merge the nature with the dead, cold, white, sterile space of a laboratory.
TUMAN Jewellery
The brand’s slogan is «modern magic in intelligent forms», and it describes the principle of making jewellery, where a magical concept or a mystical artifact are transformed into a form relevant to contemporary life. The brand’s visual language is pure and concise.
Magician
The ring features the Philosopher’s Hand, an encrypted formula for creating a philosopher’s stone.
Font
A massive ring that echoes the font from the Rosary of the Philosophers, an alchemical treatise. Rebirth, a new beginning, a transition from one stage to another.
Month
A massive ring that symbolizes femininity, motherhood, and fertility. The ring was shaped by excision of geometric shapes from an initial life object, an egg.
Armillary
The term «armillary sphere» comes from the Latin armilla, a bracelet, a ring. It is ancient tool for determining the position of planets relative to one’s location. A magic compass. This ring is functional: if you compare the phase of the Moon with the image on the ring and turn it over, you’ll find out the current positions of other planets.
Sun-Moon
A ring with a rotating element. Duality: male-female, hot-cold, solid-fluid, strong-weak. You can always choose your side.
Serpent
Ouroboros is a serpent that eats its own tail. It’s an image of infinity, cyclicity, a closed, wise and self-sufficient system that exists with no outside interference. Unlike the original image of the medieval serpent, this emerald ring is made in the shape of an eight, not a closed circle.
Gimmel
A puzzle ring from the beginning of the 15th century. The inscription on the ring says «fac quod debes facere, fiat quod fiet», or «do what you should and come what may». These two Latin truths are welded together.
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