Birth - Limited Edition of 25 Print

‘Birth’, Aluminum Dye Sublimation, 120 X 80 cm (48 X 32 inches), 2018. The majority of natural diamonds have ages greater than one billion years and most of them are colorless. There is only one Fancy-Colored diamond for 10,000 colorless, except for the rarest of them all - the scarlet diamond. There is only one such diamond for every million. During the recent decades the synthetic diamond industry has taken a leap forward, but the average cost per carat is still higher than $ 2000, whereas the corresponding average cost for mining a colorless natural diamond is 40 times less expensive. My main inspiration for creating this artwork was ‘Brisement de Cœur, Hommage à Jacques Monory’, which I finished in the beginning of 2018. This work, which is shown here as well, is about a bullet shot which turns a pastoral scene into a violent one. Here, I have contemplated the possibility of producing, or giving birth, to Fancy-Color diamonds by shooting a bullet at a wall of glass...