I had always had a fascination for the story about Noah, the flood, the pairs of animals going into the ark to be saved as the world would be flooded. I tried to find Noah’s wife’s name but it is not listed in the original text. Sometimes she is thought to be Naamah and at other times Emzara, but also Norea or Barthenos. But I used Mrs Barbie Pez Noah as a substitute name alongside her husband, Mr Ken Pez Noah. I bought the Pez people and sweets when I was at a cafe in Park HaYarkon with my daughter in law Gemma and my granddaughter Luna several months ago. I used tile sweets from Japan and pipe cleaners for the edges. I bought 4 sets of 10 animals. 2 were wild animals (rhinos, giraffes, lions, tigers, camels, kangaroos, elephants, deer, anteaters, wolves and monkeys) and 2 were labelled as farmyard animals (rats, rabbits, cats, chickens, ducks, geese, swans, cows, horses, donkeys, goats and sheep) but also 2 spare rhinos. They wouldn’t make the cut onto the boat as there were only a pair allowed so they are bringing up the rear every hopeful. I used some piping I found on the street that comes from the extractor fan for a tumble dryer. I attached it to the canvas I had found on the street and had spray painted white with glue and tacs onto the wood and sewed on with heavy duty thread onto the canvas with cardboard backing. I was given 5 stripey blue and white paper straws which I bent into a W to represent the waves. I stuck all four pairs of birds into clouds made from cotton pads dyes partially blue. I managed to be clumsy and made a hole hear the top hand corner so popped in a yellow flock bauble to represent the sun!
In the making
The animals
The nearly finished piece
The final piece!
