ketubah Reflections/Revisited I

Mixed media collage: pastel, gouache, watercolor, fabric, paper cutouts
22 1/2" x29" - 2006

The actual words that were incorporated within Ketubah Reflections/Revisited I came from copies of my marriage Ketubah, usually translated as “document" but actually meant “it is written". Like many women of my generation, I did not fully appreciate or understand the powerful words written more than 2000 years ago to protect our rights and to serve as a modern prenuptial agreement, until I revisited the words much later. My reflections combined vibrant brushwork with fragments of once delicate eyelet curtains and other highly textured paper cutouts; their complexity became a metaphor for the underlying tensions between the ideal Ketubah words of promises and the reality of life's struggles and challenges.

Selected for the JWAN national juried exhibition, “words within", at The Kraft Center at Columbia University, New York City, February 12 - March 28, 2007.Artist Reception - Sunday, February 18, 2007 3:30-5:30pm. The words within Exhibition will travel to The Rubin Gallery at Boston University, April 12-June 30, 2007.    Exhibition juror and catalogue essayist: Laura Kruger - director of the gallery/museum at Hebrew Union College, New York.

Original artwork - price on request
Giclee prints - 16x20" - signed and numbered, edition of 45
Larger Giclee prints are also available on request.

Giclee prints available.

Flora Rosefsky © 2006