Yesh Yeladim ZigZag
5 pieces of 600mm x 800mm
Burnt canvas, acrylics, wood
2024
This is another series of five. In this case, we have a text from a book we read in high school, Yesh Yeladim ZigZag. It's a text all Israelis read at some point, so it is an important part of our collective memory and kind of our self definition. It connects us.
In this work, I took two layers, one simply a scan from the book and another, showing the same text but in a kind of “faux Hebrew font”. A font I created to be recognisable as Hebrew but illegible. None of the letters are truly Hebrew letters, but all of them look like they might be. As a result, we recognise the text as a familiar text, but fail at the attempt of actually reading it.