Every wing on this ring is mounted on its own spring. Beneath the setting, fine coiled wire carries each of the four stones, so that they lift and settle with the movement of the hand — a gentle, continuous tremble rather than a swing. The stones are therefore never quite still, and light enters them from a fresh angle with…
The tail is where the colour lives. Ruby and pink sapphire are laid along it in a graduated run, square-cut and invisibly set, the deepest red gathered at the body and lifting through every intermediate degree of pink as the tail tapers away — the colour drawn out along the length of the creature exactly as a dragonfly wears it.
A butterfly, taken to its essentials. Eve has kept the sweep of a single wing — scalloped along one edge, drawn to a soft point at the other — and let the creature be suggested rather than described. The result reads as a wing the moment you see it, and as pure abstract form a moment later.