Moim zdaniem..

object - lollipop of silver - silver, cloisonné

A lollipop as a tidbit, a tasty morsel. This is what (often) the Earth and its resources is to people. But only to some of them… but such attitude generates an enormous cost that all of us will pay in the future, regardless of circumstances, place of living, or social status.

The title of the work paraphrases the refrain of Bob Geldof’s famous song: “Feed the world...”

At the expense of ruining nature, we produce food, almost half of which is wasted. And at the same time more than 800 million people in the Earth starve. To feed the hungry world, 37 billion dollars would suffice, whereas only in Italy, 34 billion euros worth of food is thrown away every year. A food product means packaging production, transportation, energy for production and storage, and industrial waste emission. Discarded food means hectoliters of wasted water. The production of 1 kcal of food consumes 10 kcal of fuel.

Huge expanses of rainforests are felled to make place for animal farms and fodder production. Costa Rica is a good example. In the last 20 years, over 80% of its forests have been clearcut.

Do we really want to feed the world? Or to eat it?

brooch – silver, amber, enamel  

In China it is possible to order organs from the government. The organs are harvested from convicts. The death penalty is carried out in such a way as not to damage the desired organs. The bodies of executed prisoners are at the disposal of Chinese transplantation wards.

The brooch “Whispers of the Heart” is a continuation of and an addition to Marek Nowaczyk’s work.

Work borrowed from Maria Magdalena Kwiatkiewicz’s Collection of Modern Goldsmithery. Thank you – http://galeriayes.pl/

brooch – silver, cloisonné, cubic zirconia