There is a violinist, a farmer tilling his field, and a cockerel with a propeller for a head. All were once rockets, artillery shells, or bullets falling on Lebanon's battlefields.
Artist Charles Nassar has been transforming their dark, wrangled remains into sculptures to celebrate tradition and memory.
"I hate shrapnel, but I also love it at the same time," said the 54-year-old with a neat salt-and-pepper beard, in a garden south of Beirut.
A series of conflicts have rocked the tiny multi-confessional country in recent decades. Читать дальше...