It was simply the contradictory calmness & explicitness that captured my eye when I saw this Brooch/pendant the first time, till Sal told me the story behind the making of it, it feels like a spirit has been cast in it, a spirit came from a journey of searching, finding & making...
'that the brooch you bought from me I made in my final year of my jewellery and object design course. It is part of a series of brooches I did about my trip to Israel in 1999 when I worked for 3 months in a kibbutz in search for a Utopian society, which sadly, to my hippy idealism, I did not find... Whilst the Kibbutz was mostly sheltered from the politics and violence between Palestine and Israel and the West and the Middle East, we were still aware of the horrors occurring even then, in a time of relative peace. So your brooch represents the explosiveness and volitility of this part of the world. The series in itself is kind of a ying yang thing, the good and the bad, the violent and the peaceful, the beautiful and the ugly.'
