Mia Hebib, "Wise Women"

Brooch is accompanied by a watercolor painting by Arnold Ephraums Materials: oxidized sterling silver, watercolor, pencil Brooch Dimensions: 3" in length, 2.5" in width   About the piece: "I grew up in a household where both my grandmother and my mother turned first to the natural world for healing before (and if) resorting to pharmaceuticals. For common cough and cold we used sage tea for rinsing, for bladder issues tea made of Uva Ursi, to name a few. Even though I was 17 when I left Croatia, this is something that I have absorbed into my core. Women are intuitive and have looked to nature for millennia. These natural ways were respected remedies for ailments and people looked to women for help and guidance for minor and significant issues. In Middle Ages they called them witches and many women were burned to death for this practice. Today, there are just a few indigenous cultures that still turn to nature as their greatest source for remedies. We no longer have that ex