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Turning the ordinary to the inspiring

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Artist Nahed Eid believes beauty is in the eye of the beholder.She is known for taking regular household items like spoons, glass, keys and beads and turning them into inspiring works of art.Her latest collection of seven dolls is currently on display at the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard.‘It’s a Doll’s World’ is a mix of dolls created in all mediums — from wool-covered Barbie dolls by artist Ami Zanders to ones made from fabric by Keitha Bassett.The show will run until August 24 with ten percent of all sales going to The Women’s Resource Centre. Ms Eid, 44, has been creating her dolls here for the past two years.She said: “The dolls are a different type of art for me. What I like about using regular objects is I can see different potential than its intended use.“I enjoy opening drawers and finding something like a strainer with little holes in it. It gives me inspiration and is a joy to work with. I can work with any medium, not necessarily just household items, but whatever is laying around.”Ms Eid, originally from Beirut in Lebanon, is most well known in Bermuda for her eclectic jewellery pieces.However she said she had lots of fun creating her latest dolls and thinking of creative names for them. She named one doll made from a meat thermometer, ‘Medium Well’.The pieces can take her four to five hours or up to a week to complete, if she is working on and off. “The challenging part is making it more diverse and adding more products into it.“Coming away from creating the ordinary doll is also difficult because you are raised with that type of traditional doll, so sometimes I have a tendency to go towards making something straight forward, but I have to remove the idea from my head and do something different.“I try to avoid plastic because some dolls are made of plastic and resin and I want my pieces to be original.”She said she was pleased some of the proceeds would be donated to a worthy charity and hopes residents and visitors are challenged by her boundary-pushing works.The Arts Centre at Dockyard is open every day from 10am to 5pm and is wheelchair accessible. Admission is free.

Nahed Eid’s Medium Well