Journey to the Wall, 2021. 

Manzanita Wood with Purple Heart Wood and Olive Wood 

38” L x 6” W x 5”- 6” D x 12” H(Front) x 13” H (rear)

During the Fall, 2018, I was performing in Eastern Europe with the Hevreh Ensemble. We performed in Prague, Czech Republic, Krakow, Lublin and lastly Warsaw, Poland. Before we left for the States, the husband of one our performers led us on a four-to-five-hour trek to find the last remaining vestige of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall. After getting lost numerous times and giving strangers on the street the address, he finally located the Wall behind a gated community of Condos. Shockingly, those Condos were built along the two sides of the remaining Wall. Knowing the history of the Ghetto where 350,000 people perished, revealed a complete disregard for its history…… building Condos next to a death Wall. It was almost too much for all of us. The Sculpture was my way of displaying an emotional anomaly. If you look closely at the front of the Sculpture, you will see a fetus – life survived despite mass annihilation.