The Temple, the Jaguar & the Kung Fu Lesson
This is a post about three paintings: A view of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a Jaguar E-type sports car,
Sinai Dawn, Oil on Canvas, 1.40cmx1.60cm
This is a painting I made in 2002, which is probably my favourite picture. Inspired by the magnificent view from the top of a mountain in Sinai called Abbas Pasha, I called it Sinai Dawn, to evoke the spiritual significance of Sinai for the Jewish people, and peopled it with three tiny figures: One in flowing robes at the top of a mountain (on the right), and another two brewing up over a twig fire for breakfast, way down in the wadi below.
This is a post about three paintings: A view of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a Jaguar E-type sports car,
I want to try to explain, from my point of view, what it feels like to be living here in Israel in these critical and dangerous times. One of the friends I’ve made through my art, who lives in Oregon, wrote me this: “………How are you in Israel REALLY doing?”