Trip-Tech Triptychs
Trip-tech # 1 -Shaheed - Amalek
acrylics on canvas
26"
x 62" (66 x 158 cm)
Perhaps my most macabre work
and one of my
rare political statements
catalyzed by the impossible & grim state
of affairs
in Israel & the world today.
in the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva
in Jerusalem last year.
My son luckily left the library room two
hours before the killing occured.
One can see the same
empty "face of evil"
in other horrible events,
such as in the mugshots
of the killers in Mombai.
Trip-tech # 2 - Swallowing One's Friend Alive
acrylics on canvas
26"
x 62" (66 x 158 cm)
Pray for the authority of the government,
because if there were no fear from it,
each person would swallow his friend alive.
(Ethics of the Fathers 3:2)
Link to additional information about the painting
Trip-tech # 3 - Eyes and Lies
acrylics on canvas
26"
x 62" (66 x 158 cm)
Relating to the duplicity and perfidy
of political leaders in general.
If you can discern the gestalt
of someone known and famous,
it is probably an accident
or perhaps a prophecy,
certainly not contrived.
Trip-tech # 4 - Conception of a Soul
acrylics on canvas
26"
x 62" (66 x 158 cm)
The physical act of "conception"
in holiness is a very high
spiritual dimension and ultimately
beyond what we can possibly conceive.
Trip-tech # 5 - The Descent into Duma
(The Silence of the Grave)
acrylics on canvas
From the phrase in Psalms 115:17 -
"The dead can not praise You nor can those who
descend into Duma (the Silence of the Grave)".
The Grave is likened in Jewish thought
to the uterus of the woman.
In the process of procreation the man "dies"
but his seed after nine months
is resurrected with the birth of a child
and a new generation.
The painting was created after the passing away
of my older brother, the noted scientest,
Professor Joshua Lederberg
and I noticed after the painting
was completed and to my surprise
a certain gestalt simularity to
one his last photographs and
the central image of the triptych:
The physical act of "conception"
in holiness is a very high
spiritual dimension and ultimately
beyond what we can possibly conceive.
Trip-tech # 5 - The Descent into Duma
(The Silence of the Grave)
acrylics on canvas
26"
x 62" (66 x 158 cm)
From the phrase in Psalms 115:17 -
"The dead can not praise You nor can those who
descend into Duma (the Silence of the Grave)".
The Grave is likened in Jewish thought
to the uterus of the woman.
In the process of procreation the man "dies"
but his seed after nine months
is resurrected with the birth of a child
and a new generation.
The painting was created after the passing away
of my older brother, the noted scientest,
Professor Joshua Lederberg
and I noticed after the painting
was completed and to my surprise
a certain gestalt simularity to
one his last photographs and
the central image of the triptych:
Trip-tech #6 - Portal to Infinity
acrylics on canvas
26" x 62" (66 x 158 cm)
We are sometimes given the chance
to enter a portal leading to
expansive conciousness,
if the "guardians" at the entrance
(our self -preserving ego)
will only let us pass
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