Bamboo is a grass. It reaches full height in a single season and then spends years hardening, and it is strong in tension in a way timber is not. That is why it is scaffolding in half the world and furniture in the other half.
Built into a passage rather than a wall, it does something particular. You walk between two ranks of verticals and the light arrives in strips, at a rhythm set by the spacing. The passage I took this from used strips fifteen millimetres by three, more than ten thousand of them. The building is not the thing you look at. It is the thing you pass through, and the interval is the whole design.
The ring is the interval. Silver where the bamboo was, and nothing where the gaps were.
Inspired by Kengo Kuma and Associates' Bamboo Passage pavilion for the touring exhibition Architecture for the Five Senses. Solid sterling silver 925 with rhodium plating.