pattern and decoration

A Good Home 2022

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מבית טוב 2022

Oil 90/80 cm

I searched online for photo references for paintings exploring “human figures embedded in pattern”. I found a lovely formal family portrait, that caught my heart. From the clothing I inferred that it was taken in America around 1940. Were they very young parents with their teenage daughter? Or siblings? Their posed body language and shy smiles were both dignified and very much at ease. At ease with each other.

I’m Flying Like an Airplane 2020

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I’m Flying Like an Airplane 2020. Oil on canvas 100×110 cm.

אני טס כמטוס 2020

I worked and reworked this canvas for years. It began with a plan to create a painting entirely in shades of white. Soon a tree entered. Followed by yellows and my beloved weird greenish “dark yellows” joined. (They arecreated by adding a drop of black into various lemons and flame colors.

My sleeping pilot made his landing last week.