Ink, Colored Pencil & Chalk Pastel on Bristol Board
Artist’s Statement: After visiting a butterfly sanctuary, I became inspired to create a drawing using these magnificent creatures as the subject. I wanted to relate the butterflies to Judaism, and went searching for a word or phrase that was relevant to them and the idea of migration and ascension. I met with my local Chabad rabbi, Rabbi Shmuel Tiechtel, and we brainstormed and came up with the word “aliyah,” quite literally meaning to ascend and to migrate to Israel.
