Amending Hope

2000

Amending Hope was made possible in part by a FY 2000 Fellowship Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

Three Generations.
 

Silk organza and Fiberglas webbing embedded in polymer medium, tulle, thread, embroidery floss. 19.5”H x 15”W x 2.5”D.
2000

Three Generations. Detail.

Crossing.
 

Silk organza and Fiberglas webbing embedded in polymer medium, tulle, thread, embroidery floss. 20.5”H x 10”W x 2.5”D.
2000
 

Accommodation.
 

Silk organza and Fiberglas webbing embedded in polymer medium, tulle, thread, embroidery floss. 22”H x 16”W x 2.5”D.
1999

The Letter.
 

Silk organza, paper, thread. 9”H x 11.5”W x 2.5”D.
2000

The Letter. Detail.

Fruit of the Earth #2.

Silk organza and Fiberglas webbing embedded in polymer medium, muslin, tulle, thread, embroidery floss, quilt batting, acrylic pigment. Potatoes: quilt batting, gel medium, acrylic. (Phototransfered image of my great-grandmother’s wedding dress,1895.) 50”H x 30”W x 5”D.
2000

Fruit of the Earth #2. Detail.

Jewels from her Hand.
 

Silk organza and Fiberglas webbing embedded in polymer medium, muslin, tulle, thread, yarn (dyed and stained), embroidery floss, quilt batting, acrylic pigment. (Phototransfered image of my grandmother’s wedding dress, 1913.) 50”H x 30”W x 5”D.
2000

Jewels from her Hand. Detail.

Study.

Acrylic and thread on paper. 11”H x 12”W.
2000

Shoah

2000

Wall.
 

Fiberglas screen, muslin, quilt batting, silk organza, cotton fabrics, tulle, thread, embroidery floss, acrylic paint. 40”H x 48”W.
2000

Wall. Detail.

Pillar of Cloud by Day.
 

Silk organza, tulle, thread, embroidery floss. 9”H x 11”W x 2”D.
1999

Pillar of Fire by Night.
 

Silk organza, tulle, thread, embroidery floss. 9”H x 11”W x 2”D.
1999

Fraulager #1.
 

Mixed fiber, thread, copper and brass wire. 20”H x 16”W x 3”D.
1999
[The title is a reference to the 300 women’s prisons in Nazi-occupied Europe.]

Fraulager #1.
 

Detail.

Winter.
 

Silk organza and Fiberglas webbing embedded in polymer medium, cotton fabrics, tulle, thread, gauze,. 26.5”H x 18.5”W.
1999

Red Sky.

Silk organza and Fiberglas webbing embedded in polymer medium, cotton fabrics, tulle, thread, cording. 27”H x 18”W.
1999.

Listen to the Sound of the Wheels Screaming.

Silk organza and Fiberglas webbing embedded in polymer medium, mixed fabrics, tulle, thread. 35.5”H x 17.5”W.
1999

[During the Hungarian transports in 1944, a congregant asked, “Rebbe, what will become of us?” as the crowded cattle car entered Auschwitz/Birkenau. The rabbi answered, “Listen to the sound of the wheels screaming.”]

A decree has been issued by Goering protecting frogs.

Mixed fiber, thread. 19”H x 15.5”W x 3”D.
1999.

[The title is a quote from L’Univers Concentrationnaire by David Rousset, 1946. The photomontage image is a reference to the Nazi “euthanasia” program (1939-41). Thousands of mentally and physically disabled citizens, described by Nazi eugenics as “life unworthy of life”, were systematically killed under the direction of compliant physicians.]

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