Sea/Exodus- 1994- 2014
I began painting the sea in the mid-nineties as studies for my Wall of Remembrance, Memorial Room, Holocaust Museum Houston, resulting
in the image of a lone boat on a stormy sea. These initial paintings were predominantly black, symbolic of forced departures and Exodus. I continue to paint this series, expanding the use of color, as I found meaningful relationships to my work on water, memory, place, and the environment, with boats and ships carrying the known and the unknown, related to other historical events, and humanity’s impact on the sea. The boat and sea, its movement and displacement, become metaphoric of our own journey and the fluidity in the construction of memory.
in the image of a lone boat on a stormy sea. These initial paintings were predominantly black, symbolic of forced departures and Exodus. I continue to paint this series, expanding the use of color, as I found meaningful relationships to my work on water, memory, place, and the environment, with boats and ships carrying the known and the unknown, related to other historical events, and humanity’s impact on the sea. The boat and sea, its movement and displacement, become metaphoric of our own journey and the fluidity in the construction of memory.