Mixed Media oilgraph with acrylic, graphite and gunpowder on wooden panel // 20”x20”

For Israel.

“Pogrom” has only one definition: An organized massacre of an ethnic group, namely that of the Jews. I stand with the horror the world feels about the slaughter of October 7, 2023.

The textures were created by igniting gunpowder on the surface of the panel and burning into the print itself. It’s an uncontrollable process and the explosion chooses its own direction. Just like war itself.

“You were the innocents in fields of splendor
at war with no one
and dancing in the sun of hope

Families in their suppers and
babies in cribs
set on fire without mercy

There are no words
for this

Jerusalem Jerusalem…

Sderot Sderot

Kfar Aza kibbutz

Your children lie dead
Your grandmothers hostages
and your women raped

The blood in the grass
calls out for justice
and the war has begun

Horrors of horrors

in disputed lands
but in a land that always

was always yours

The most precious of dust given

Stand Israel
and I stand with you.”