Coral reefs play a major role in sustaining the balance of life on earth. Formed by many compact colonies of individual polyps, they provide homes to over a million different species of marine animals, protection from natural disasters for coastal cities around the world, food for people who live near reefs, and much more. However, human activities like land reclamation and global warming continue to threaten their existence, leaving behind swathes of bleached, lifeless reefs as a result of commercial greed and vain negligence. The Corol collection highlights in particular the role the jewellery industry has in driving the destruction of these organisms. As fuel for the fires of this industry, they are torn from the seabed to be fashioned into coveted personal ornaments. In this way, coral serves as a scathing illustration of the impact human design has on the living: often more desirable dead than alive. The pieces in this project outline, in stark detail, the dilemma behind the use of coral as jewellery. As individual ornaments, their potential beauty is always restricted—they only display their true colours when they are submerged in water, never as beautiful as they are in their natural habitat. When removed from water, each piece remains a matte crystal skeleton, a tangible metaphor for dead coral whose life has long faded, subsumed by man-made markets and exploited for our pleasure.