London-based jewellery designer Octi presents Ammonite, a new collection exploring water as a force of transformation, a source of life, erosion, preservation and discovery, revealing fragments of the past while reshaping the present.
Continuing Octi’s exploration of the golden ratio within nature, SS27 draws inspiration from ammonite fossils found along rivers and coastlines. The collection considers the gradual process through which water alters ancient forms, softening surfaces while preserving their defining spiral.
Octi translates this process into water-worn objects in precious metal, combining salt-worn textures, satin finishes and fluid sculptural forms. Droplets of water are captured as sapphires, introducing moments of colour and luminosity.
Existing Octi forms are revisited through new textures, finishes and proportions, alongside interchangeable rings designed to stack and layer, allowing the wearer to create their own compositions. Across the collection, spirals, concentric forms, and repeating patterns connect the jewellery to the amorphous, yet mathematical structures found throughout nature.
This language extends into an immersive presentation co-created with Sound and Spatial Designers, Robin Sparkes and Bojan Kostović, exploring the relationship between sound, space, material and time. At its heart, a sculptural instrument holds cymbals created by Octi, played with dripping silver finger caps. This is in conversation with a live cymatics performance, using water to make sound visible.
These instruments mirror Octi’s own process of preservation. Wax captures the movement of liquid in a single moment before being cast in metal, freezing that movement into a lasting form. In this process, the instruments become a means of fossilising music: translating something transient and invisible into a physical structure, creating a sensory crossover between seeing sound and hearing jewellery.
Referencing the Music of the Spheres, the presentation connects music, geology and mathematics through shared systems of rhythm, proportion, repetition and natural order. Fossils and music become parallel languages: both shaped by patterns and time, yet existing at opposite ends of permanence.
For Octi, jewellery is a form of preservation: capturing fragments of nature and transforming them into objects capable of carrying memory through time. Ammonite extends this idea beyond the body, turning water, sound and movement into tangible forms.
The result is a multisensory constellation where jewellery becomes instrument, sound becomes structure and material becomes memory, exploring how the fleeting can be captured, preserved and carried forward.
