Pumpkin Flowers
2024
20" x 14"
When the Milwuakee JCC put out a call for art about books depicting Israeli soldiers' experiences i knew i had to create this print. The book “Pumpkin Flowers” by Matti Friedman, depicts young Israeli, inexperienced soldiers posted to a remote Israeli location near the Syrian border. Their boredom is ongoing until one day they are besieged by gun fire and a battalion of Syrian soldiers.
Many cultures have a catastrophic flood origin story. In Torah, Noah’s ark saves human and animal life, swaying for forty days and nights amidst the deluge.
God created a watery expanse above the realms and great waters below the realms. The wonder of these endless expanses of watery masses has a cosmic and immeasurable quality. Between them, God formed the space where our world exists.
The waters saved the infant Moses by concealing him in
an ark amongst the reeds. Miraculously, the baby is
found by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised in their Royal court to become a powerful sage and leader.