| Ahava (Love At Fifty), 1999 features the contour of a Roman sculpture of a nude woman, photographed in front of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. As an ode to a couple on their fiftieth wedding anniversary – also Israel’s fiftieth birthday year, their wedding picture is fused into the wall – like the movie poster for a love story, which originally hung there. Symbolically, the backdrop is white washed, like their memories of war, love, and marriage. Robert Indiana’s sculpture of the Hebrew letters for the word Love, also photographed in the sculpture garden of the Israel Museum, form the base of this new female form. |