Global Gem

"Can the world buy such a jewel?"

Much Ado About Nothing,

William Shakespeare

This piece done in brush pen which achieves and houses much of the same qualities of acrylic paint, supposed to signify this quote. The layers of multiracial hands clasping a commonly and classically known precious jewel of a diamond in one palm, supposed to represent the world's community reaching for and hopefully maintaining possession of this precious material rarity. The line is said in reference to a woman in the actual Shakpearean play, and is symbolic in this illustration as a fine woman can be seen as "a diamond in the rough," or as being of "diamond standard," or as being a "palace jewel." The hands representative of the "world" and of it "buying" more optimistically showing it "can" by possessing the "jewel" in its grasp. Hence this piece being symbolic of this line.