Today is Yom Hashoah and the siren went off a little while ago. Everyone stops what they are doing, in the street, on the road at home.
Most of the tv stations have stopped porgramming unless it is holocaust related . It is an experience to be here - a deep somber awarness pervades everything. There are about the same number of Jews living in Israel that were murdered in the holocaust.
There is this contrast between life and death, between that what we memorialize and that what we create. There is something unique about the experience of it here in Tel Aviv specicifically, the cultrual capital of Israel. These two paintings begin to touch on this.
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