Blood Diamond Artiststatement

I did not know what Blood Diamond was until Blood Diamond project was given. After watching and researching about Blood Diamond, I was shocked by the fact how diamond was mined in Sierra Leone. While I was watching a document on blood diamond, I felt their mental and physical pain, hatred, and anger. I decided to design my piece as a jewelry that people would not want to wear. Unwearable. Diamond is a jewelry that people want because it's beautiful however, most people don't know where diamonds come from and how they are mined. Therefore I wanted to show the real side of the diamond by using barbed wire like shape for the necklace and half of a diamond shaped with barbed wire. I chose barbed wire shape because when we think about it, it hurt people. When people touch or grab barbed wire, they bleed and leaves scar. People in Sierra Leone were killed if they couldn't find diamond. In my designed piece, I wanted to express diamond's harmful side and makes people not want to wear diamond anymore. Before people find out where diamonds come from, people should not wear diamonds.