Judith of Serebrin Books & Prints

These figure are an embodiment of the shifting places that we inhabit in relation to culture, conflict and to intellectual and spiritual pursuits as a people with a heritage of shifting landscapes and expulsions. We may feel safe in a particular way in one place, and safe in another way in a different place. They were made for A Sense of Space, A Sense of Place at the 2015 Jerusalem Biennale.

Every place has a culture with pressures to conform to certain standards, ideas, and rhetoric. Within each culture there is space to think and act on certain things, but it may take leaving a place to have space to think and act on certain other things. In the Jerusalem, my sister has had space to explore being a Jew in a Jewish culture; whereas I, in the diaspora (U.S.), have struggled with this in a Christian culture. I have however, outside the 'holy land,' had the space and opportunity to meet, learn about and make friends with Palestinians. While she, so near the conflict and harshness of the situation, has not had the space or place to meet the so-called ‘enemy’, her neighbors.

Approximate sizes, 20-12" tall

Mixed-media, porcain & parchment

Creaated in 2015