Ambivalence

 

My photography is awful but I kind of like this piece.  It was made for an exhibit of the Israeli Artists Group of Toronto.  The exhibit never happened.  The piece was supposed to represent my ambivalent feelings about being Israeli and Canadian and living in the diaspora.  I chose to use the Yehuda Halevi's poem - My heart is in the east and I am in the uttermost west.  I fused the Hebrew lettering onto organza and fused that onto fancy fabric strips.  The background between the strips is from my wedding fabrics stash.  The English phrase was also fused onto dark blue silk and that was fused onto fabric which I had snow dyed - how much more can I be in the uttermost west (and north) to do snow dyeing?

I was unable to be a member of the Israeli Artists Group as their meetings were on the same day as the Pomegranate Guild's.  I wonder IAG is still active?  Note to self - check it out.