Ot more art descriptions for David

[Mirjam Bruck-Cohen]

HeeDavid ,,,,holidays almost over i can start my descriptions again
for you,
Fabrics Remember [ the exhibition]
I must explain here that in Hebrew the term Baad is cloth but also an
offspring Thus this name was very apropraite. As i asked all artists
to work with inherited cloth.
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Hospitality by Sofia Cohen-Kleermaker
This was an embroidered table cloth , part of my praternal
Oma`s Trouseau, thre first level is a very orderly decorative stripe
of nobel person, standing with nice clothes among a decorative border
of flowers. Now the heads have disappeared we don`t know why,
Tablecloth was hidden in ground covering some of my Oma`s dishes,
after she came back from Therseistadt concentration camp, She
started to rebuilt her life. As a good Dutch housewife she repaired
the tablecloth , many times.one day my father took a pencil and wrote
on the cloth "[in Dutch] there is a loose thread here, Oma embroidered
this , and let guests sign the map with waht ever writings they
wanted. and she embroidered it, Looking at the map and seeing the
second layer , which scattered and sort of flies every where , over
the extremely ordered underlayer, symbolozes , Her Scattered life
after the Holocaust.
Fabrics Remember[my work ]
, I used Inherited doilies to make an Album of Family Women,
I made Blue cloth pages for doilies who came from my husband`s family
and pink cloth pages for those of my family. Usually they are bound in
an Album , but when on display i can hang the `pages` on feet that
come from the cover of the album ,,,, On the site you see 4 of the
pages ,,, Family Monograms...
shows an Emblem given to me by a soldier of the Jewish Brigade
[British Army] , which i kept with me for all this years , now it
could find a place. As it was rather lonely i added my Army emblem.
And when i was making it i noticed for the 1st time that my inherited
white tablecloth had a bulge at the side i opened the bulge and found
mograms that belonged to both my Oma`s , the one oi knew and the one
murdered,, May be they waited for me to find them a proper place ?
There is a round one made embroidered with flower in cotton Praline
threads and crocheted around , This was made by my husban`s Maternal
Grandma Julia.
A page with 3 enchnting crocheted doilies are by Chana tuchman , a
fried of Julia,
And one has an ovale straight embroidered canvas with Shadow
emnroidery in black and a bit of brown , made by my praternal Oma
Regina Klein Waxman , who fled Russia , as a young woman with this
doily in her pocket, and was murdered in Auschwitz at theage of 43..
She was laso a great crochter,
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The Spirit of Ophelia 140 cm wide 60 cm high By Haim Maor
On a hand embroidered tapestry showing a Part of Eouropean Nobles
dancing in a part the moon shing , nothing to worry about , floats the
spirit of Ophelia painted in Acrilyc over the party ,,, trying to warn
those People that soon some thing horrid will happen... but they keep
dancing.
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Djin-Eology By Haim Maor
Haim has used up the few old embroideries his mother has, thus he used
commercial tapestries that looked like those his mother embroidered as
a young well behaved girl in Polland. he embroidered on each tapestry
in Yiddish the family relatives he lost , Mama , Tata, Cuosing sister
brother , a whole family he never met , and only their spirits were
living in his parents memories, somehow given to him. Every tapestry
was framed in Black , and than he hung the Family TREE of embroidered
family names in a form of a tree but also a Menora [ a Lamp ].
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mirjam

[David R. Sky]

Thanks Mirjam. I was just wondering, when you are writing these
descriptions, are you looking at the actual pieces and describing them, or
looking at photos of them, or describing them from memory?

Thanks,

David

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[Mirjam Bruck-Cohen]

I am looking at them , unfolding them from the closet , only Kfar
Kara i couldn`t as it is in the Museum`s collection.
mirjam

[Mirjam Bruck-Cohen]

Forgot to tell you that , i can only look at mine , artworks that
belong to other artists have been returned to them , of course ,,But
as a curtaor i spent a long time with every work ,, i go visit the
artist at home/studio ,,, so that i can match all the works into one
happy family. Thus when they aren`t here i can describe frommemory but
rather prefer to look at the picture, mirjam

[Mirjam Bruck-Cohen]

Here some more
Key Position 62x 63 x 7 Oli Gherman Grausz
Oli built an open wooden and than a3 dimentional white keyhole , the
background of the box is filled with dried flowers and earth behind a
tule net , the keyhole which cut gradually thus the real hole is sort
of sunk in the layers of cardboard, under the key hole is a slit in
which a rusty oldfashioned key lays. on both sides of the key hole are
2 folded embroidered handkerchiefs , hanging like 2 towels would hang
on both sides of a sink in old fashioned Bourgouis bedrooms in Europe.
The work hints at the secrests of the Praternal bedroom , for a
curious child. The folded handkerchief were from Oli`s parents house.

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G. Oma 62 x 63 x 7 ,
in an open box Oli built a Chest drawer the rounded heead is a made of
an old lacy collar , the ones ladies in Europe would stich to a dress
opening for wearing and take out for washing, The collar is covering
cardboard drawers that are filled with laurel leaves and dried flowers
, giving a soft scent of OMAs wearing these collars, the white card
board has 2 open drawers filled with more dried flowers , the
background under the tule has dried flowers laurel and earth, It is a
Memory of an Oma.
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G. Opa 62 x 63 x 7
In a wooden open box , oli built a cardboard little tumb , with some
parts ech narrower than the one below it, on the tomb big buttons are
glued or sunk into it , Oli remembers her Opa only as a man who hugged
her closely till his Jackets` or shirts` buttons crashed her face. on
the left upper side a beautiful hand embroidered Handkerchief, that
has been in her family for some generations, hangs neatly folded as if
she was folded into the chest pocket of a jacket . dreied flowers and
earth are closely held behind a tule background.

mirjam

[David R. Sky]

Hi Mirjam,

*smile* That piece with the keyhole cut into cardboard with the key... it
strongly reminded me how fascinated I was as a child with keys and locks,
for the first time in years I just thought of a set of large plastic keys
on a chain my parents got for me. *chuckle* I also had fun working out ways
to unlock locks using something other than a key :)

David

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[Christine in Kent, Garden of England]

Don't they call that breaking and entering David. You must have been a very
forward child!!
Love Christine

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[David R. Sky]

Hi Christine,

lol! They weren't locks to keep people out of houses or anything like
that... Simple things which would take something like a hairpin and a bit of
explosives... *cackle*

David

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[Christine in Kent, Garden of England]

Well, as long as you didn't transfer that practice to houses and stuff, and
you kept the explosives to *small* amounts. I hadn't heard reports of large
explosions so I suppose you must have learnt the error of your ways!!

[David R. Sky]

Hi Christine,

*chuckle*

David

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[Mirjam Bruck-Cohen]

Christine , when i had young children i had to break in to my fridge
to get their food , the fridge lock broke ,, it was Friday night, no
help and husband was abroad ...
mirjam

[Christine in Kent, Garden of England]

Oh Mirjam how awful; hungry children and no way into the fridge. I hope it
wasn't too hard to break the lock. the only lock we ever had on our fridge
was a plastic catch to stop the youngsters getting in when they were tiny.
That didn't stop DD2 and her friend (when they were about 18 months old)
getting hold of a box of eggs and breaking them all over Ann's snow suit.
Washing it in cold water was horrid but it was better than scrambled egg!!
Love Christine

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