For my metalsmith class, we were assigned a project based on our personal response to the subject of blood diamonds/conflict stones. The format was left upto us, with the exception of using the lost wax casting process and related processes as demonstrated in our course. In class, we watch Blood Diamonds, a documentary produced by The History Channel in 2006.
I have also had the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge about conflict diamonds when I traveled to southern Africa in 2007. When I approached this project, I knew I didn't want to do something grusome that related to the effects of conflict diamonds. I came up with two main ideas of contrasting ideas. The first was focusing on what people do with their diamonds, once they realize they are conflicted (many people do not know whether their diamonds are certified at purchase). As I continued to think about the project, I started thinking of the emotions it brought up for me. Keywords: children, hanging over my head, disturbing, beauty of Africa and imbalence. That's where the idea of a mobile came into play. When I think of mobile, I think of something to go over a baby's head on their crib. A mobile rocks, swings and balances itself all very delicatly...something to portray physically, what I was thinking emotionally. 
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