[Jewelry making - Article 00314] - [Orchid] [Tidbits] A Bone ... A Brooch ... Mussolini and Haile Selassie

[Benjamin Mark]

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A Bone ... A Brooch ... Mussolini and Haile Selassie

    Just when you thunk you've seen it all ... along comes the
    unimaginable to titillate the imaginable. Politics rears her head
    and invades the world of jewelry.  Italy ... circa 1955 ... a brooch
    is created in Bakelite ... inexpensive jewelry when it comes to
    materials ... provocative and priceless when value is placed on
    creativity. 

    October 1935. Mussolini--bricklayer  turned power hungry dictator
    --invades Ethiopia. Haile Selassie-- emperor of this ancient
    Abyssinian Empire dating back to biblical times--whose monarchy
    traces its origins to the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon ... is  not
    happy. And thereby hangs a tale of a brooch. 

    A heavy-set Mastiff (Mussolini) with anger etched in his grimace ...
    is trying to take a Bone (Ethiopia) away from an emaciated Dog
    (Haile Selassie) fighting for its very survival and unwilling to
    cede to the obvious overwhelming power of its adversary. 

    Somewhere in Italy an anonymous artist creates a brooch as
    arepresentational sculpture of Mussolini's exultant incursion into
    Ethiopia. Two dogs fighting over a bone. How appropriate. How
    ingenious. How clever. How smart. A piece of molded Bakelite
    preserves for as long as it exists an historical moment in time. And
    an artist--hopefully still among us--has taken some portions of
    earthly matter and created for himself in his jewelry--a touch
    immortality. 

    For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I
    direct you to my home page at www.tyler-adam.com where you will
    scroll down the left side menu till you get to the area that says
    Tidbits...and then click on the link that says: Ethiopia ... where
    you will see a graphic of  a brooch created with talent and
    ingenuity. 

    And there ya have it. That's it for this week folks. Catch you all
    next week. Benjamin Mark 

            -- http://www.tyler-adam.com --


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