Artist Charles Nassar has been transforming their dark, wrangled remains into sculptures to celebrate tradition and memory. Metal rained down during the 1975-1990 civil war, the 2006 conflict between Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah and Israel, and during clashes in a Palestinian camp the following year. “The shrapnel takes on shapes in my mind… They guide me to what I should do with them,” said the artist. Nassar first created his metal sculptures in Beirut, but after the war he decided to display them on land he owned in Remhala. “I don’t want to remind people of war,” Nassar said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 16, 2019 19:41 UTC