Ink on Paper
Artist’s Statement: In life, there are things that bother us. Takes messes, for example; we don’t like them.
But a mess is a discomforting image only because of the message it sends: “Clean me.” If you never had to clean your messes, you would probably appreciate all the things those messes say about you.
7:30 a.m. is a portrait of the messes that accompany us on a typical morning. A lot of what’s in this image doesn’t appear extraordinary because we don’t typically think about the messages in our messes; we’re too busy focusing on the clean-up they demand.
This drawing will help you appreciate these annoyances, and what they convey about the morning routines of the Jewish nation.
