It stands to reason that Roman soldiers adorned their shields with garnet for protection.
The sanguine hue of a stone that looks danger in the eye and asks it to dance. Protecting the warrior from bloodshed because they’re already covered in it.
A hexagonal garnet has been armored in sterling silver and dangles from both a red and black strand of silk. Life and death dancing in lockstep, all of us dangling between hoping to survive.
Black and red silk thread, sterling silver, garnet, hematite.
32”
