Peace Gate, by David Greenfield (USA)
Peace, Salam, Shalom, Life, chaim, chay-ya, peace-gate, Maalot-Tarshiha, Mi'ilya, Israel
A large arched gate loom in the foreground, straddling a serpentine road that winds its way through a peaceful and verdant landscape. The painting is very textured with layers and layers of 4 words- life, love, justice, and peace in Arabic, English, and Hebrew.
This painting was made in 1988, during the first Intifada, and was a collaborative work painted by myself and four 10th and 11th grade students from Tarsiha (Christian) and Mi'ilya (Christian) in northern Israel, where I was an artist-in-residence. Every day we were overwhelmed with words and images in the papers, television, and radio. We felt that as artists, we needed to create an image that represented our desire for a path to a war-free future. The painting is a visual mantra, made by multiple layers of 4 words stenciled in English, Arabic, and Hebrew: life, love, justice, and peace.
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Searching for Escape, by David Greenfield (USA)
A small transparent acrylic panel over a color xerox of a man, peering over two red-splattered maps of the middle east, searching for a way out.
Searching for an escape from the tyranny of the past and the bloodshed of the present middle east.
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Endless Sorrow, by David Greenfield (USA)
Two robotic figures are seen leaving a house, one carrying the other who is draped in his arms, mortally wounded.
I was an American serving in the Israeli army in the mid-1970s, when during basic training, members of the PLO came into a small village in the north, capturing a house and holding the family inside hostage. My unit was sent to provide extra security in the village and neighboring towns while we waited for seasoned veteran soldiers to rescue the hostages. After they arrived, they stormed the house, and a number of civilians and PLO fighters were killed. One of the Israeli soldiers soon exited the house carrying one of the dead. It was his brother and it was his brother's house. This was my first real exposure to war, and the image of the event has been seared into my memory and has been one of the reasons that I became an anti-war activist.
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Pen and ink on archival paper
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Sacrifice, by David Greenfield (USA)
Sacrifice was painted in San Francisco after I returned from a 6-month stay in Israel/Palestine as an artist-in-residence in 1988 during the first Intifada. The images are from photographs and sketches of a soldier, teacher, the artist, a child, and a dead goat.
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