Jess Wood
Figurative narrative paintings with Jewish themes
These paintings are my latest works.
The Road to His Parents Kibbutz is about a colonel and a brigadier general in the Israel Defence Force who I met on an army base. Both sets of their parents are Shoah (Holocaust) survivors. One of the sets of parents established a kibbutz and even now, elderly, they sit at the gate of the kibbutz, on guard.
Sarah and Hagar alludes to the ancient Biblical tale of the origins of the Jewish and the Arab nations. Yet also within ourselves, we have our portion and our dispossession, our pride and our supplications, our separation from ourselves, the mechitzah (the division between men and women in the synagogue), and still, the Separation Barrier.
Figurative narrative paintings with Jewish themes
These paintings are my latest works.
The Road to His Parents Kibbutz is about a colonel and a brigadier general in the Israel Defence Force who I met on an army base. Both sets of their parents are Shoah (Holocaust) survivors. One of the sets of parents established a kibbutz and even now, elderly, they sit at the gate of the kibbutz, on guard.
Sarah and Hagar alludes to the ancient Biblical tale of the origins of the Jewish and the Arab nations. Yet also within ourselves, we have our portion and our dispossession, our pride and our supplications, our separation from ourselves, the mechitzah (the division between men and women in the synagogue), and still, the Separation Barrier.
