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Gisant of Solomon; acrylics, pastels, cloth Zachreinu; acrylics, pastel and gold leaf and metal leaf on panel, 24 x 72. 2012. on canvas, 60 x 72. 2009-2012. SOLD Gisant of David; acrylics, pastels and liquid Khaneinu; acrylics, oil, liquid iron and iron on panel, 24 x 72. 2012. pastels on canvas, 54 x 60. 2010. My paintings are mainly pictures of words. Contemplating words as if they were objects encourages viewers to focus less on their Gisant of Saul; acrylics, pastels, metal leaf Aneintr, acrylics, pastel and liquid iron on meanings and more on their sanctity. The butterfly and liquid iron on panel, 24 x 72. 2012. canvas, 48 x 72. 2010. floating between word and viewer is a symbolic veil -- as in the veils of the Holy of Holies at the Kivtah Nafshi; acrylics, liquid steel and Vehu Rachum II; acrylics, liquid metal, Temple -- intended to separate human beings from pastels on panel, 18 x 24. 2012. and pastels on panel, 18 x 24. 2012. the unbearable intensity of transcendent holiness. (That Christianity insists that "the veil ripped" at De Profundis; acrylics, oil, pastels and —Hayinu Kecholmim; acrylics, pastels and the death of Jesus, while Judaism believes that the liquid metal on panel, 18 x 24. 2011. metal leaf on canvas, 48 x 60 . 2010. veil survives -- that intimacy and transcendent SOLD holiness co-exist -- is one of the central issues between the two systems of thought.) My "gisants", Lecha Dodi; acrylics, metal leaf and Ha'azinu II; acrylic, pastel and liquid stee' collage on panel, 18 x 24. 2010. SOLD on panel, 18 x 24. 2011. inspired by the recumbent tomb-sculpture of the Abbey of St Denis, represent the first three kings of the United Monarchy of Israel: Saul, the tragic hero; Hineni; metal leaf, aquarelles, liquid iron Yishama; collage, acrylics and aquarelles Solomon, every inch a king; David, who stalks, and pastels on panel, 16 x 20. 2012. on panel, 18 x 24. 2005. raging, forever. They are intended as part of a reconstruction-in-art of Royal Jerusalem, whose Chadesh Yemenu; acrylic, aquarelles and Hosiah et Amecha; acrylics, oil and gold spectacular artistic and intellectual achievement is collage on panel, 18 x 24. 2009. SOLD leaf on canvas, 48 x 60. 2009. often lost in the countless layers that came after. Royal Jerusalem can never be reconstructed by archeology--it can only be recaptured and Ashrei; collage, acrylics and aquarelles on Ha'azinu I; collage, acrylics and re-imagined in art. This is the ancient city that did panel, 18 x 24. 2005. aquarelles on panel, 18 x 24. 2000. more than any other to shape the western mind. Both types of picture are part of my attempt to In a Dry and Thirsty Land; acrylic, pastel, Vag Ha'azinu (drawing); pencil, acrylic and speak about Judaism in images. Jewish art must aquarelles, metal leaf and liquid iron on metal leaf on paper, 12.5 x 20. 2011. speak directly about Judaism, not about Jewish panel, 18 x 24.2010-2011. types or customs or cultural milieux. It must not stand in some ethnic enclave, but squarely in the Shma'ah; acrylic, pastel, metal leaf and Blue Mezuzah; collage and mixed media liquid steel on panel, 18 x 24. 2010-2012. —on panel, 16 x 20. 2000. mainstream of western art. -- David Gelernter Sh'ma; acrylic, aquarelles and collage on panel, 16 x 20. 2009. SOLD ■ Bronze Mezuzah; collage, acrylics and pastel on panel, 16 x 20. 2002. Vaya'avor; acrylics, pastels, metal Sweet Singer of Israel I; acrylics, pastel, —leaf and metal suspensions on — liquid iron, graphite on panel, 24 x 36. panel, 36 x 24. 2012. 2006. Merkt Auf; pencil, metal leaf and Sweet Singer of Israel II; acrylics, liquid aquarelles on paper, 11 x 20. iron, gold leaf and shell gold on panel, 24 2011. x 36. 2010. EFTA01187842