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ODA.dream Rings
An intimate signal becomes a durable, wearable object.
How can a measured moment become a shared material memory?
A founding pair of rings engraved with traces of two alpha rhythms.
About the work
- Founding object
- Gold engraving from EEG rhythms
Inside the work
Before the studio’s name
Olga and Daler chose to make their wedding rings and engrave traces of two alpha rhythms onto gold. The sapphire in Daler’s ring refers to Olga’s eye colour; the emerald in Olga’s ring refers to Daler’s. The pair was made for their wedding on 20 March 2020. These are two personal objects, not the name of a mass-produced collection.
A dream as an authored story
During recording and making, the authors imagined a shared future: the sea, warmth and a child. Their later journey to Bali and family photographs became, for them, a return to that image. This relationship is told as personal interpretation and memory; the neural signal is not treated as a prediction or as the cause of subsequent events.
From a personal object to Materia
The rings’ story became one of the origins of ODA.dream and the Materia line. On 6 August 2022, a banner featuring the rings accompanied its public presentation at Synergy Crypto & NFT Forum in Bali. The archival chronicle preserves stages from sketch and workshop to family photographs. A new commission requires its own story and making process rather than a copy of this pair.
Work materials
Archive documents
Archive version v220927: ring profiles, gemstone placement and engraving layout. It documents this particular pair, rather than current commissioning terms.
A 2022 archive banner telling the authors’ ring story. Original wording and contacts are retained; this is historical material, not the studio’s current offer.
The dream and its later recognition are the authors’ narrative. EEG recording and physical engraving are described separately from it.
Who makes the work
Olga and Daler Arabov
Concept, personal story and participation in making
Working with the project
Original work, not an off-the-shelf product; commissions discussed individually.