Ot more art descriptions for David

HeeDavid ,,,,holidays almost over i can start my descriptions again for you, Fabrics Remember [ the exhibition] I must explain here that in Hebrew the term Baad is cloth but also an offspring Thus this name was very apropraite. As i asked all artists to work with inherited cloth.

--------- Hospitality by Sofia Cohen-Kleermaker This was an embroidered table cloth , part of my praternal Oma`s Trouseau, thre first level is a very orderly decorative stripe of nobel person, standing with nice clothes among a decorative border of flowers. Now the heads have disappeared we don`t know why, Tablecloth was hidden in ground covering some of my Oma`s dishes, after she came back from Therseistadt concentration camp, She started to rebuilt her life. As a good Dutch housewife she repaired the tablecloth , many times.one day my father took a pencil and wrote on the cloth "[in Dutch] there is a loose thread here, Oma embroidered this , and let guests sign the map with waht ever writings they wanted. and she embroidered it, Looking at the map and seeing the second layer , which scattered and sort of flies every where , over the extremely ordered underlayer, symbolozes , Her Scattered life after the Holocaust. Fabrics Remember[my work ] , I used Inherited doilies to make an Album of Family Women, I made Blue cloth pages for doilies who came from my husband`s family and pink cloth pages for those of my family. Usually they are bound in an Album , but when on display i can hang the `pages` on feet that come from the cover of the album ,,,, On the site you see 4 of the pages ,,, Family Monograms... shows an Emblem given to me by a soldier of the Jewish Brigade [British Army] , which i kept with me for all this years , now it could find a place. As it was rather lonely i added my Army emblem. And when i was making it i noticed for the 1st time that my inherited white tablecloth had a bulge at the side i opened the bulge and found mograms that belonged to both my Oma`s , the one oi knew and the one murdered,, May be they waited for me to find them a proper place ? There is a round one made embroidered with flower in cotton Praline threads and crocheted around , This was made by my husban`s Maternal Grandma Julia. A page with 3 enchnting crocheted doilies are by Chana tuchman , a fried of Julia, And one has an ovale straight embroidered canvas with Shadow emnroidery in black and a bit of brown , made by my praternal Oma Regina Klein Waxman , who fled Russia , as a young woman with this doily in her pocket, and was murdered in Auschwitz at theage of 43.. She was laso a great crochter,

--------- The Spirit of Ophelia 140 cm wide 60 cm high By Haim Maor On a hand embroidered tapestry showing a Part of Eouropean Nobles dancing in a part the moon shing , nothing to worry about , floats the spirit of Ophelia painted in Acrilyc over the party ,,, trying to warn those People that soon some thing horrid will happen... but they keep dancing.

------ Djin-Eology By Haim Maor Haim has used up the few old embroideries his mother has, thus he used commercial tapestries that looked like those his mother embroidered as a young well behaved girl in Polland. he embroidered on each tapestry in Yiddish the family relatives he lost , Mama , Tata, Cuosing sister brother , a whole family he never met , and only their spirits were living in his parents memories, somehow given to him. Every tapestry was framed in Black , and than he hung the Family TREE of embroidered family names in a form of a tree but also a Menora [ a Lamp ].

-------------- mirjam

I am looking at them , unfolding them from the closet , only Kfar Kara i couldn`t as it is in the Museum`s collection. mirjam

Hi Mirjam,

*smile* That piece with the keyhole cut into cardboard with the key... it strongly reminded me how fascinated I was as a child with keys and locks, for the first time in years I just thought of a set of large plastic keys on a chain my parents got for me. *chuckle* I also had fun working out ways to unlock locks using something other than a key :)

David

Forgot to tell you that , i can only look at mine , artworks that belong to other artists have been returned to them , of course ,,But as a curtaor i spent a long time with every work ,, i go visit the artist at home/studio ,,, so that i can match all the works into one happy family. Thus when they aren`t here i can describe frommemory but rather prefer to look at the picture, mirjam

Here some more Key Position 62x 63 x 7 Oli Gherman Grausz Oli built an open wooden and than a3 dimentional white keyhole , the background of the box is filled with dried flowers and earth behind a tule net , the keyhole which cut gradually thus the real hole is sort of sunk in the layers of cardboard, under the key hole is a slit in which a rusty oldfashioned key lays. on both sides of the key hole are

2 folded embroidered handkerchiefs , hanging like 2 towels would hang on both sides of a sink in old fashioned Bourgouis bedrooms in Europe. The work hints at the secrests of the Praternal bedroom , for a curious child. The folded handkerchief were from Oli`s parents house.

-------- G. Oma 62 x 63 x 7 , in an open box Oli built a Chest drawer the rounded heead is a made of an old lacy collar , the ones ladies in Europe would stich to a dress opening for wearing and take out for washing, The collar is covering cardboard drawers that are filled with laurel leaves and dried flowers , giving a soft scent of OMAs wearing these collars, the white card board has 2 open drawers filled with more dried flowers , the background under the tule has dried flowers laurel and earth, It is a Memory of an Oma.

--------- G. Opa 62 x 63 x 7 In a wooden open box , oli built a cardboard little tumb , with some parts ech narrower than the one below it, on the tomb big buttons are glued or sunk into it , Oli remembers her Opa only as a man who hugged her closely till his Jackets` or shirts` buttons crashed her face. on the left upper side a beautiful hand embroidered Handkerchief, that has been in her family for some generations, hangs neatly folded as if she was folded into the chest pocket of a jacket . dreied flowers and earth are closely held behind a tule background.

mirjam

Don't they call that breaking and entering David. You must have been a very forward child!! Love Christine

Hi Christine,

lol! They weren't locks to keep people out of houses or anything like that... Simple things which would take something like a hairpin and a bit of explosives... *cackle*

David

Well, as long as you didn't transfer that practice to houses and stuff, and you kept the explosives to *small* amounts. I hadn't heard reports of large explosions so I suppose you must have learnt the error of your ways!! Love Christine

Hi Christine,

*chuckle*

David

Christine , when i had young children i had to break in to my fridge to get their food , the fridge lock broke ,, it was Friday night, no help and husband was abroad ... mirjam

Oh Mirjam how awful; hungry children and no way into the fridge. I hope it wasn't too hard to break the lock. the only lock we ever had on our fridge was a plastic catch to stop the youngsters getting in when they were tiny. That didn't stop DD2 and her friend (when they were about 18 months old) getting hold of a box of eggs and breaking them all over Ann's snow suit. Washing it in cold water was horrid but it was better than scrambled egg!! Love Christine