During my visit to Desert X in Coachella Valley, I saw Sterling Ruby’s fluorescent orange monolith, SPECTER, which appears as an apparition in the desert. The bright geometric sculpture creates a jarring optical illusions, resembling a photoshopped composite or collage, as if something had been removed or erased from the landscape. The block acts as a cipher or stand-in, mimicking the form it could be — a shipping container, a military bunker, an unidentified object, an abandoned home-stead. Fluorescent orange is traditionally used for safety, as a warning. Here that logic is reversed: a ghostly object, set apart from the natural environment, hiding in plain sight. #objet_d_emotion…#valerydemure#desertx#jewellery#fashionjewelry#finejewellery#contemporarydesign#jewelry#finejewelry#art#modernart#sculpture#luxury#objetdemotion#handmade#instagood#designerjewellery#fashionjewellery#fineart#jewellerycollector#jewelrycollector#preciousstone#diamonds#abstractart#jewel#jewels#artisan#abstract#craftsmanship#sterlingruby