The work embodies an act of destruction and the rejection of visual imagery as a critical stance – challenging conventions, exploring identity, and protesting institutional power. It examines how images derived from remnants of Judaica, commercial jewelry and other national symbols – are transformed and take on new meanings. I hybridize wax models collected from a Jerusalem foundry – and the symbols turn into hybrid creatures, evoking questions: Jerusalem of gold, or of darkness and light?
Omer Dushy
