independent study | spring 2021
graphite, charcol, handmade chalk on paper
24” x 36”
Figures representational and grotesque blend childhood nightmares in a barren yet abstracted landscape of war trenches and mass graves and were inspired by a course in Jewish narrative and my reading of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s In my Father’s Court (1956). Singer’s memoir of childhood and the Jewish experience unfolds through overheard cases of the father’s rabbinical court or beth din, described as “a kind of blend of a court of law, synagogue, house of study, and, if you will, psychoanalyst's office where people of troubled spirit could come to unburden themselves.”
