WHAT IS PAINTING?
A deep vermilion spot on the left side and the moon overhead (had there even been a moon?). The tracks drowned in a multitude of gray and ochre nuances, set against a pale, solitary Naples yellow.
The whole story of that night, deprived of a known language, had crept onto the linen of my canvas. In a way, that was an answer to Elie’s question.
The night train
The fragments of a nightly conversation ignite a compelling urge to translate into shapes, colors, and nuances a deep reflection on art. What is painting? What is light? Prompted by the topical questions of an unknown train passenger, an Israeli engineer named Elie “wearing a kippah and carrying a huge suitcase”, the artist engages in a dialogue that soon moves from spoken words to the unspoken language of mathematical speculation and art. Drawing on a book cover with an eye pencil as Elie concocts impromptu theories, she later turns her drawing into a triptych to give that night some sort of closure. Was Elie even real, or was he the ghost of the Wandering Jew, traveling the world to find some rest? But that’s another story…
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