THE MEANS TO AN END, 2020

Das Mittel zum Zweck

This artwork is a passage through time from the 1930s, Kristallnacht and the Holocaust, continuing to the present day where antisemitism is proliferating globally.

The persecution of the Jewish population in Germany began as early as 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power. Between 1933 and 1945 two thousand Nazi anti-Jewish decrees came into effect….and became the means to an end.

Sadly, in the 21st century, Jewish people continue to be terrorised, either in person, on social media or at their place of worship.

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THE MEANS TO AN END x 2 framed.jpg

COMMENTS

  • Utterly chilling message

  • This is truly demanding, but an illustration of how art can go straight to the target

  • Beautiful and poignant work

  • Chilling and terrifying

  • It seems wrong to hit the ‘like’ button somehow for works that explore such a dark history

  • Your work is always hugely thought provoking, well researched and meticulously detailed

  • Superb work, very shocking and moving

  • Very powerful work. These things need to be remembered

  • There are those who dismiss the rise of antisemitism still

  • It’s saddening to see the description for Jews couched in the universal language of racism as in the term ‘vermin’

  • Powerful indeed

  • This work encapsulates the history! Such power, the Pages take one right back - gives me the shudders

Measurement: 16cm x 22cm each (framed)

Process: Collage

Materials: Vintage German/English phrasebook, German Classified Vocabulary book first printed 1938, vintage German/English dictionary, adhesive