SELECTION III

Work in Progress

Selection III, like Selection I and II, focuses on the innocent people who were murdered during the Holocaust because they were Jewish. The work is an avowal of remembrance, but also a reminder that antisemitism did not cease when World War II ended.

Today, antisemitism is proliferating everywhere from Europe to the United States, from the Middle East to Latin America, and Jewish people are still being killed because of their religion. On closer examination of the artwork, there are names, histories and photographs of some of those lost in the 20th and the 21st century.

On 7th October 2023, over 1,200 innocent Jewish people were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in Israel. Babies, children, pregnant women, the sick, the elderly and Holocaust survivors were not spared in this ruthless attack. Many others are being held hostage in Gaza.

Measurement: To be decided

Process: Hand stitch

Materials: Cotton, silk threads, vintage ophthalmic lenses, miniature picture frames, photographs

Exhibited in:

Fabricated? Solo Exhibition, London, England (1 October 2024 - 31 January 2025)

comments

  • Powerful, poignant, overwhelming, heart rending

  • So important to keep highlighting what happened to so many individual people

  • Your work is on another level

  • Your art is important and timely. Always. I can’t imagine how difficult this was to stitch

  • How absolutely exquisite…heartbreakingly so

  • Each piece of your work breaks my heart. These stories need to keep being told

  • Your work is bringing it home to me on a whole new level

  • It’s so distressing and hard to believe that terrorists are causing such heartbreak and devastation to people

  • Unbelievable heartache and incomprehensible cruelty

  • Your remembrance of them offers grace and care to a heartbreaking event

  • My heart aches that you are having to stitch such words

  • Thank you for all you are doing to document this atrocity and all the previous atrocities done to our people

  • Your work is vital in the charting of the human cost

  • Your stitching will be an important document for all

  • Thank you for your beautiful embroideries honouring and remembering these people. You are doing important work

  • I cannot comprehend such barbarity and hatred. Every stitch a remembrance of those lost

  • These are such beautiful, poignant, quiet reminders

  • Unbearably distressing, and hard to accept such dreadful things still happening, and the total lack of humanity in those actions

  • The tragedy of having to add witnesses to this relentless story of pain

  • Thank you for using your skills in remembrance

  • I am so sad that your art is relevant again today

  • I was in awe of your historical documentation of Jewish suffering but this real time work is beyond belief on so many levels