Kaddish in Wood
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Adolph Eichmann was asked at the end of World War Il how Germans in the future could deal with the legacy of the Holocaust. He said that there was no problem: Because one hundred deaths are a catastrophe..., one million deaths are a statistic.
The goal of my art project is to represent the Holocaust in terms that the human mind can comprehend. Through my art, the suffering is returned to the level of the individual and the unimaginable atrocities of the Holocaust are, in essence, rehumanized.
I am attempting to remind my fellow humans that the Holocaust can be understood as a catastrophe, rather than just the overwhelming, mind-numbing statistics referred to by Eichmann. I focus on individual people of all ages who can be seen in
the grainy, blurry and frequently torn photographs which remain from that period. By means of three-dimensional relief and color, I try to recreate some sense of the uniqueness of each of the murder victims with their hopes and fears, skills and
talents.
Many of the young people who have seen my work ask, "Did this really happen?" They cannot believe that such barbarity occurred so recently. It is comments like this that continue to fill me with the passion.”
Kaddish in Wood
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Adolph Eichmann was asked at the end of World War Il how Germans in the future could deal with the legacy of the Holocaust. He said that there was no problem: Because one hundred deaths are a catastrophe..., one million deaths are a statistic.
The goal of my art project is to represent the Holocaust in terms that the human mind can comprehend. Through my art, the suffering is returned to the level of the individual and the unimaginable atrocities of the Holocaust are, in essence, rehumanized.
I am attempting to remind my fellow humans that the Holocaust can be understood as a catastrophe, rather than just the overwhelming, mind-numbing statistics referred to by Eichmann. I focus on individual people of all ages who can be seen in
the grainy, blurry and frequently torn photographs which remain from that period. By means of three-dimensional relief and color, I try to recreate some sense of the uniqueness of each of the murder victims with their hopes and fears, skills and
talents.
Many of the young people who have seen my work ask, "Did this really happen?" They cannot believe that such barbarity occurred so recently. It is comments like this that continue to fill me with the passion.”