Im Besengebiet / Field of Brooms childhood Jiang Jian

Jiang Jian

I hope my work would inspire the pursuit of a new balance to the conflicted within the self and between the self and otherness

Nigeria spent an unbroken quarter century as a military dictatorship

class and the fragility of social structures

cross-disciplinary activity

Im Besengebiet / Field of Brooms childhood Jiang JianIn the Bernese Oberland and other places throughout Switzerland, women make hand brooms from moor grass. Similar brooms are to be found in countries such as Greece, Spain, China, India and Ghana, as well as on the Cook Islands. The oldest examples, more than 3000 years old, are from Egypt. Given that the material used seems to be of no value, the artistry with which these everyday objects are made is astonishing. This richly illustrated book explores