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An ecological artist in Israel is using art and photography to raise awareness of man's harmful treatment of the environment. Our reporters visited her exhibition named: "Say farewell to the concrete dress."
An Israeli artist gives expression to her commitment to nature through various projects which became her "Say farewell to the concrete dress" exhibition on display in the Technological Institute in the city of Holon.
After her parents died, she decided to take the 50-year-old pieces of furniture in the house she grew up in and return them to nature and record the process.
[Shy Zakai, Artist, Technological Institute, Holon]:
"I asked politely from those furniture to go back to earth and become again raw material, but this time to serve as raw material to the earth instead of the people, the human."
Ecology speaks of recycling; isn't this against recycling?
Another of Zakai's projects is a leaf library she collected and documented over 17 years, from 90 locations in the world.
[Shy Zakai, Artist, Technological Institute, Holon]:
"It's an inventory about human - nature relationship, in a way that if we continue treating nature as we do, then there will be no nature and then people should have to come to my library and to remember how nature used to look like."
Zakai says the time is overdue for science and art to come together.
[Shy Zakai, Artist, Technological Institute, Holon]:
"Until we combine art and science together there will not be really reclaimed or restored places. They will never exist, the time will be short and then they will be damaged again."
