Emanuela Duca’s jewelry possesses a raw, elemental beauty: rough but sophisticated, robust yet delicate-looking. Her blackened metal pieces, with their craggy surfaces and ragged edges, resemble small sculptural volcanoes. This rawness is offset by small, twinkling gemstones—diamonds in the rough, literally. Duca’s Gold Leaf ring, with a bubbling, coarse coating of gold, plays on this theme by radiating a warm inner glow, looking about ready to burst into flame. The artist’s extraordinary attention to shape, construction, and texture pays off; her pieces are charismatic and complex, engaging and enchanting. I love Duca’s frequent use of spirals and circles to convey movement and change, evoking natural processes like evolution and erosion.

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