Sold! Youth and Billygoat, 2019. Gouache and ink on panel coated with kaolin.

נמכר! עלם ותיש 2019. גורש ודיו על לוח המצופה בחימר לבן.

Was exhibited at “Covered Uncovered Covered” at the Jerusalem Theatre, summer 2019.

אגדות תשע״ט, 2019

Gouache over multimedia, on Claybord panel. 46 x 91.5 cm

The simple wooden recorder became a hero in the newly reborn Hebrew poetry and song.
The Wandering Jew was now romantically depicted as a shepherd in our homeland, guarding the herd with a shepherd’s flute, and often a book.

Before I ever heard the instrument played, I knew about it from children’s books from Israel.
For decades, most school children learned to play it (a little) and were invariably taught songs of that old “Hebrew” genre.

As the new country became modernized, the recorder remains a nostalgic expression of that earlier romance. It still symbolizes the pioneering spirit, and the naive simplicity of walking the footpaths of the “Land of Israel.”

Gouache 36 x 51 cm. Available.
I painting this more optimistic work, on my familiar theme, just before the current wave of protests against the regime began.
I pray that the brave people in Iran, who are struggling for a more sane and peaceful future, will succeed.

The painting began rotated in the other direction. Rows of now incoherent bottles, were remolded into coherent bottles, facing right side up.
May that be a good sign.