PARSHAT TERUMAH 5782 THE ARTIST AT WORK
We are artists, working to refine and repurpose materials of our everyday selves into something transcendent and sanctifying.… Read More
We are artists, working to refine and repurpose materials of our everyday selves into something transcendent and sanctifying.… Read More
A readiness for a new way of living is a precondition for receiving guidance and instructions that will change one’s life.… Read More
The moment at Mount Sinai is one of birthing pressure, designed to bring forth from the community and from each individual a higher level of initiative, creativity and responsibility…the foundations of freedom.… Read More
To be free requires unshackling ourselves from the hold of the past and its limitations upon us.… Read More
Torah uses images of weight to paint a picture of the Israelites in exile in Egypt. They are “pressed down upon,” taskmasters are “put on them,” they are “compelled to serve.” Bent over, they trample straw into the mud to make bricks.… Read More
Before Moses can lead others out into freedom he must first liberate himself from his own fears.… Read More
We experience the world in three dimensions. How can artists replicate such experience on a two-dimensional medium such as the flat surface of a canvass?… Read More
“Who am I?” To hear in response that you are one who is noticed and who has companionship and who has a purpose is an awakening of life.… Read More
We grow not by living within certainty but by living through uncertainty by the choices we make.… Read More
Arshile Gorky traveled between worlds. Some of his journeys were open and revealed. Others were hidden and obscure. He bridged European Surrealism and American Abstraction.… Read More