Lior Ben Nissan
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About the Artwork: In Greek, Nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship; it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the Wheel. It’s called the Carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Around and around and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved. ("Mad Men" Season 1, Episode 13, "The Wheel")
Lior Ben-Nissan (1984) is a senior student at Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. Lives and works in Tel-Aviv. This specific photograph was made during a student exchange program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh PA, and was photographed in WV.
