Articles

I think you should not be afraid

Let’s be grateful for doorstops.

The father makes coffee, weary and quiet,
as the child tries to imitate his grief.

Your name is splashed across the sky at night, / like some kind of petty graffiti,

In Judaism, we are taught to not fully complete an object, to leave a sliver incomplete until Moshiach (the Messiah) comes to help us rebuild the Temple. As I relate this to my paintings, I am not sure they are truly finished.

It’s the first death for each of them,
but the crash of sorrow into happiness

Hardly anything is not fragile now; the world may be in the most fragile state of our lifetime.

There is much trouble in the world
but no diminution of hope

I don’t know much about Jerusalem
besides my walks in it.