An Emotional Wreck / Dagger Through The Heart
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$7,000.00
$7,000.00
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18 x 4.5 x 2 inches
This dagger was made as a conceptual piece that was designed to convey both depression and self-sacrifice. The blade that makes up this dagger is actually a giant, crooked, cut nail and through a heat treatment process, was blackened to translate as the embodiment of the emotion. The cross guard was carved out of mahogany and set with two garnets to represent the emotional pain and the blood spilled from using the dagger. The handle is wrapped in black lamb’s skin with a noticeable spiral stitch, representing a wound that never heals. The barbed wire that is wrapped around the handle protrudes and digs into the leather as a reference to the physical pain and the sacrifice needed to be able to use the device. This suggests that an emotional pain is sometimes greater than a physical one. The barbed wire also plays another role, as it was meant to deter one from using the blade, while also containing the emotion. The parts and pieces that make up this dagger, also reverence a biblical context, with the nail, thorns, and blood all alluding to the self-sacrifice involved.
This dagger was made as a conceptual piece that was designed to convey both depression and self-sacrifice. The blade that makes up this dagger is actually a giant, crooked, cut nail and through a heat treatment process, was blackened to translate as the embodiment of the emotion. The cross guard was carved out of mahogany and set with two garnets to represent the emotional pain and the blood spilled from using the dagger. The handle is wrapped in black lamb’s skin with a noticeable spiral stitch, representing a wound that never heals. The barbed wire that is wrapped around the handle protrudes and digs into the leather as a reference to the physical pain and the sacrifice needed to be able to use the device. This suggests that an emotional pain is sometimes greater than a physical one. The barbed wire also plays another role, as it was meant to deter one from using the blade, while also containing the emotion. The parts and pieces that make up this dagger, also reverence a biblical context, with the nail, thorns, and blood all alluding to the self-sacrifice involved.