While making the “Save As……” collection, I thought about how the jewellery industry has changed since the Internet and digital technologies entered the everyday. The jewellery piece on the Internet spreads itself as a ready-made — as a 3D file accessible to anyone at any place. This accessibility intrigued me. I created this collection of silver rings while interpreting the current cultural situation.

The idea of using ready-mades in art is not new. Dadaists were famous for using technologically produced objects for their collages and installations. I also used the ready-mades, but in the digital dimension as well as in the context of contemporary jewellery art.

Usually, the jewellery’s digital ready-mades are conventional — commercial jewellery — polished metal decorations with stones. I utilised these 3D files for the sake of new pieces. I modified and distorted them in order to see what would happen: would they acquire a new meaning entering the 3D software again but in a more mannered and sarcastic way?

The rings were 3D printed out of silver dust. My partners are CloudFactory in Tallinn, Estonia. They are first guys in the world who offer this technique (direct silver 3D printing) as a service.

The names of the rings come from spontaneous act of tapping on the keyboard — as an illustration of the process of saving a file without any rational effort to name it.

This piece can be ordered at any size and received in two-three weeks.