Andi Arnovitz
Sh’ma Blog: “Garments of Reconciliation”
BY: ANDI ARNOVITZ
“Garments of Reconciliation” (2009)
A series meant to provoke dialogue and foster co-existence.
Materials: black Egyptian cotton, digital scans on linen, cotton embroidery thread.
My concept was to take quintessential, symbolic garments of two people at conflict and combine them. I used the colorful embroidered insets that Palestinian women wear on their long black dresses and [...]
Sh’ma Blog: The vest of the “ Ba’alei Tzedakah” (Giver of Charity)
BY: ANDI ARNOVITZ
Although I am a printmaker who works primarily on paper, with a printing press, I felt it necessary to create something that hypothetically could indeed hold and contain money. After going back to the most basic of Jewish sources, the Torah, I focused on a specific quote from Deuteronomy 15:7-8:
“ If there [...]
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