Blue Skies

Blue Skies – An Installation Commemorating October 7thSilent, torn, burnt, and distorted, like mass graves, like piles of bodies of those who perished in the Holocaust, this is how the skeletal cars of the murdered appeared to me—a fresh remnant of the horror that struck us all in the Gaza envelope.The impression of this sight would not leave me, and three consecutive days of creation gave birth to a painting in dust and ash.The difficult personal experience that each of us went through this year exceeds all imagination. The pain of losing faith in the image of man, the loss of hope, and the questions that arose in our hearts are unbearably difficult. Three years before the October 7th massacre, I experienced a severe personal trauma which left me stunned and hurting, and gave birth to clay works in which aesthetics and injury, penetration and pain, are intertwined.The October 7th massacre and the rift among the people echoed the personal trauma and turned it into a national one—my brothers on a different path, as if we did not grow up in the same house, in the same country, under the same values.Above the bodies of the burnt cars are blue skies that fill most of the painting; a single, small flower blooms in the desert soil.The installation is accompanied by original music created by the musician Leshem Ben David.The installation was exhibited at The Post Gallery in Ramat HaSharon and was published in the art journal "New Language."