New Works - 2007-9

From the Trip-Tech Triptych series:


Trip-tech # 1 - Shaheed - Amalek
 
Shaheed


acrylics
 on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

Perhaps my most macabre work
and one of my rare political statements
catalyzed by the impossible & grim state
of affairs in Israel & the world today.







Trip-tech
# 2 - Swallowing One's Friend Alive
 
Swallow

acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

Pray for the authority of the government,
because if there were no fear from it,
each person would swallow his friend alive.
(Ethics of the Fathers 3:2)






Trip-tech
# 3 - Eyes and Lies
 
Being Watched

acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

Relating to the duplicity and perfidy
of political leaders in general.
If you can discern the gestalt
of someone known and famous,
it is probably an accident
or perhaps a prophecy,
certainly not contrived.






Trip-tech # 4 - Conception of a Soul
 
Conception

acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

The physical act of "conception"
in holiness is a very high
spiritual dimension and ultimately
beyond what we can possibly conceive.








Trip-tech # 5 - The Descent into Duma
(The Silence of the Grave)
 
Duma

acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

From the phrase in Psalms 115:17 -
"The dead can not praise You nor can those who
descend into Duma (the Silence of the Grave)".
The Grave is likened in Jewish thought
to the uterus of the woman.
In the process of procreation the man "dies"
but his seed after nine months
is resurrected with the birth of a child
and a new generation.


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Trip-tech #6 - Portal to Infinity
 
Portal

acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

We are sometimes given the chance
to enter a portal leading to
expansive conciousness,
if the "guardians" at the entrance
(our self -preserving ego)
will only let us pass






Trip-tech #7 - Don't Fear the Dread of the Night
 
Dread

acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

From the phrase in Psalms 91:5.
Inspired by the IDF invasion of Gaza,
the eerie colors of night-time photography
and the camouflaged faces of the soldiers.



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From the Dialogue - Antilogue Series:





Dialogue # 39 - Don't Shout at Me
 
Shout

acrylics on canvas
33" x 33"  (84 x 84 cm)







Antilogue # 37 - Getting Visceral

Visceral

acrylics on canvas
33" x 33"  (84 x 84 cm)

A Slice of Life







Dialogue # 38 - Searching for the Light

Visceral

acrylics on canvas

33" x 33"  (84 x 84 cm)


Searching for the candle of illumination,
obscured by the "Skin of the Serpant",
a metaphor for mundane "reality"





Antilogue #26 - Vortex

 
Vortex

acrylics on canvas

37" x 37"  (94 x 94 cm)

Hold my hand as we drown together into
the Black Hole of Oblivion






Dialogue #27 - Marriage
 
Schizo

acrylics on canvas
37" x 37"  (94 x 94 cm)

A portrait of the artist & his wife.






Dialogue #28 - Mystery
 
Mystery

acrylics on canvas

37" x 37"  (94 x 94 cm)

 He carries His Secret in the Darkness.






Antilogue #29 - The Snake and Eve
 
Eve & the Snake

acrylics on canvas
37" x 37"  (94 x 94 cm)

The snake as Adam's alter ego










Dialogue #30 - Amoebic Love
 
Amoebic Love

acrylics on canvas

37" x 37"  (94 x 94 cm)


Let's ooze together like we did last summer







Dialogue #33 - The Shechina
 
Triangle

acrylics on canvas

37" x 37"  (94 x 94 cm)

The three partners in a marriage:
the man, his wife & the Shechina
(the indwelling of the divine spirit)









Dialogue #35 - Love in Outer Space
 
Outer Space

acrylics on canvas

33" x 33"  (84 x 84 cm)








Dialogue #36 - Keep Your Guard Up
 

)Guard Up

acrylics on canvas

 33" 33"  (84 x 84 cm)

A defence mechanism borrowing
from Picasso's minotaur.






Dialogue #41- Riding the Waves
 
Waves

acrylics on canvas

10 1/2" x 16" (27 x 40 cm)



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From the Mystical Visions Series:


Meditation on a Point

Point

acrylics on canvas
32" x 32" (81 x 81 cm)


Simulating the entering
into the "vortex of no-return"
that many people have described
in their near-death experience





Emerging from Chaos

chaos

acrylics on canvas
30" x 40" (76 x 102 cm)





The Dance of Life

dance of life

acrylics on canvas
30" x 40" (76 x 102 cm)






Genesis


genesis

acrylics on canvas
33" x 33"  (84 x 84 cm)

The world emerging as an infinite spin-off
from the letters of the first Hebrew word
of the book of Genesis

B-R-A-SH-I-S
  בראשית


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Turn Arounds 2009


Paintings revealing a surprising new form 
and dimension when turned upside down
the protrusive becoming the recessive 
and vice versa

Masculine and Feminine Waters

waters

acrylics on canvas
20" x 20" (51 x 51 cm)
   
The triangular form or vector pointing upward 
represents what is called by the kabbalah 
the "feminine waters", the movement
or aspiration from below 
to reach a spiritual height, such as in prayer. 
Turning the painting upside down 
transforms it to the "masculine waters", 
the vector of bringing spiritual energy 
into the "vessels" of the mundane world.


 



The Marriage Dance

dance

acrylics on canvas
20" x 20" (51 x 51 cm)
 

Dance is an important element
in the Jewish wedding and symbol for the

dynamics of the marriage relationship,
if we use the Hebrew word
for dance, "m'chol",
which also implies making a ring or circle.

Turning the painting upside down
we can see the "young couple" forty years later





Eyeless Peace Doves in the Middle East

doves

acrylics on canvas
20" x 20" (51 x 51 cm)
 
The Doves are a universal symbol
for purveying Peace but when the painting
is turned upside down something
very ominous and catastrophic happens,




doves



ahmad


Ahmadinejad and a nuclear explosion!








From the Elongations (long & narrow) series:




Elongation #2

elongation #1

acrylics on canvas
10" x 26" (26 x 66 cm)






Elongation #3

elongation #3

acrylics on canvas
10" x 26" (26 x 66 cm)






Elongation #7

elongation #7

acrylics on canvas
10" x 26" (26 x 66 cm)






Elongation #8

elongation #8

acrylics on canvas
10" x 26" (26 x 66 cm)






Elongation #9

elongation #9

acrylics on canvas
10" x 26" (26 x 66 cm)






Elongation #10

elongation #10

acrylics on canvas
10" x 26" (26 x 66 cm)




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