These Language Lessons pieces were made for a solo exhibition housed in the 1889 gallery in Liverpool which is housed in the building as a language school serving refugees and immigrants with business visas. At the time, from a desire to participate in synagogue services and understand more of the wisdom in the ancient Jewish texts, I began to learn Hebrew. Unlike the European languages…
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Standing at Sinai: Where do artists get their ideas?
Where do you get your ideas? is a common question asked of all artists. There are many answers which range from those who take a laboriously mechanical route though direct observation and sketching to those who airily acknowledge the role of their unidentifiable muse. The question however presupposes that an artwork starts with an idea. As exemplified by the first three works in my series Standing at Sinai this…