Noga Hadad

second nature

Israel, 2009

Brooch

Materials:

casted basalt and silver

Dimension in cm:

8 x 8 x 1.5

Artist Statement:

This brooch is a part of my final project in

Bezalel, I studied the surrounding I grew up

in and tried to express the combination of

pastorally, nature and the war elements.

I took the basalt stone which is the local

stone used by human beings throw history

of the area for building houses and tools

and in the Israeli history is used as a cover

for bomb shelter's, for the early Israeli artist

to use as symbol of belonging to the

homeland and i melted it. Trying to bring it

back to it's source. Giving it the shape of the

ventilation opening in a bomb shelter As i

grow up in a kibbutz working the land was

a part of the morals i absorbed, the

belonging to a land to a view has become a

part of my personalty. So what grow out of a

land that has tries and flowers but also

shelters and bunkers come out of it?

Personal information:

personal website:

nogihadad@yahoo.com