Tension and Attention
This work confronts the questions around Jews who integrate into their surrounding culture and the criticism from other Jews of this cultural assimilation. In my case, becoming a mother in a foreign place, furthered the distance from Israel. I therefore searched for a connection between the body and the surface of the painting, between the subject and the object.
The act of re-seeding myself is a complex one in this context
Canvas, gesso, sunflower heads and seeds 4'x8'
Canvas, gesso, sunflower heads and seeds 4'x8'
Canvas, gesso, sunflower heads and seeds 4'x8'
Canvas, gesso, sunflower heads and seeds
Canvas, gesso, sunflower heads and seeds
Canvas, sunflower seeds 3'x5'
Canvas, sunflower seeds 3'x5'
Canvas, sunflower seeds
Plaster
Plaster