Elephant's eye lashes (brooch detail)

One man thought of the fact he doesn't own a pension.
He traveled in his memory back and forth between his life events.
Until he reached a certain day in his childhood. His parents had taken him to the zoo
and he saw an elephant for the first time in his life. His mother explained to him
that the elephant's gaze is smart and sad because of his long tangled eyelashes.
His father shrugged and said it is simply because the elephant is both smart and sad.
The man without the pension thought that maybe they were both right.
And that now it is too late anyhow to change something.

Materials: copper, paint, artificial hair.
Technique: press forming, repousse, soldering, interweaving.
A brooch.
According to a story by Alex Epstein.