Process

These images are after i cut, filed, and sanded. They were originally for my blood diamond project and I might still use them but i made a few more to put in the sale.

From my research, i learned more about the elephants in Sierra Leone [earlier posts]. I like the elephant as an African icon. I like how the elephants are slowly moving back into Sierra Leone after being forced out by the civil war, are now a symbol of peace. It's slow but there is still hope.

The vulture is another powerful symbol. In the Blood Diamond documentary there was a scene where the vultures were picking at human bodies in the street, like roadkill. They were dragging and plucking the flesh from human beings. It was tuff to watch but it was powerful. If more people could see those kinds of graphic images, i think it would help show how brutal the war really was. The vulture is the opposite of the hopeful elephant, it's a sign of death, of blood. It's never good when vultures are circling.