Artist Charles Nassar has been transforming their dark, wrangled remains into sculptures to celebrate tradition and memory. "I hate shrapnel, but I also love it at the same time," said the 54-year-old with a neat salt-and-pepper beard, in a garden south of Beirut. Nassar was forced to flee Lebanon during the civil war, and his grandmother was killed in the violence, according to AFP. But she and other characters of the artist's past live on, displayed in the nooks and crannies of his garden in the village of Remhala.