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BIBLE STORIES
This is a series of paintings and drawings, videos, staged photographs and sculptures, all telling stories from the Jewish Bible (Tanach).
![Rachel hiding idols (Genesis 31,34) .jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_2141e898bc204050a7405e8f312014d2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_337,h_276,q_90/a5df00_2141e898bc204050a7405e8f312014d2~mv2.jpg)
![Cain and Abel still 1 .JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_91b7e8a8900b49089e3bef344651aa64~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_337,h_212,q_90/a5df00_91b7e8a8900b49089e3bef344651aa64~mv2.jpg)
![Adam meets Eve.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_7eae28034f4346eab23fa58dc20dd221~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_337,h_225,q_90/a5df00_7eae28034f4346eab23fa58dc20dd221~mv2.jpg)
![600k Still 1 (72dpi).JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_239a5dcd326041a0a736c85da772e364~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_337,h_189,q_90/a5df00_239a5dcd326041a0a736c85da772e364~mv2.jpg)
![Genesis and Exodus (929)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_833a5b1fe7bc442985b90126586b3e62~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_337,h_337,q_90/a5df00_833a5b1fe7bc442985b90126586b3e62~mv2.jpg)
![Collecting the Shekels 11.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_9a37ddb7e87240f097082382cadb363f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_337,h_190,q_90/a5df00_9a37ddb7e87240f097082382cadb363f~mv2.jpg)
![Gan Eden Mikedem, (Original Garden of Eden)detail.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_b902d220cd8947029200fc0b032162b4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_337,h_225,q_90/a5df00_b902d220cd8947029200fc0b032162b4~mv2.jpg)
![Untitled, (The female side of God) final_for web.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_4338e25dc56c4716a72c0de98b763be1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_695,h_320,q_90/a5df00_4338e25dc56c4716a72c0de98b763be1~mv2.jpg)
Leaning youth
Mixed media 160x40x60cm
“And do not forsake your mother’s teaching” (Proverbs 1:8)
I am taking this injunction and exploring the teachings by example of Biblical and post-Biblical women from traditional sources.
In this project I have created a life-size sculpture (from epoxy and polystyrene) of a youth, reading a book of relevant quotations from the Jewish Scriptures.
I chose a boy rather than a girl, because the Jewish tradition tends to focus on learning passed down from father to son. In this piece I want to divert that focus, and shine a light on mother-son (and mother-daughter) teachings, to remind ourselves of this instruction from Proverbs, and to bring it to the fore.
![Leaning youth 'And do not forsake your mother's teachings' (mixed media) 120x41x61cm.JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_4055d8d580244e22ae96d637f43fe7c6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_401,h_714,q_90/a5df00_4055d8d580244e22ae96d637f43fe7c6~mv2.jpg)
![detail 2 .JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_7017e9d5d05e44df981cf1317b294cdf~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_248,h_440,q_90/a5df00_7017e9d5d05e44df981cf1317b294cdf~mv2.jpg)
![detail 1 .JPG](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a5df00_af6e3b1aa36844bab159109fc965706b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_248,h_248,q_90/a5df00_af6e3b1aa36844bab159109fc965706b~mv2.jpg)
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