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W5432
20.10.2012
Sheli Lehadpasa (Mine for printing) - Tamar Lederberg
WWW
  • Sheli Lehadpasa (Mine for printing) Art constitutes a tool for contending with difficult psychological situations. A situation of loss and pain generates creative forces. An illness triggered fervent creativity in my mother. The trauma following her il ...

    Sheli Lehadpasa (Mine for printing)

    Art constitutes a tool for contending with difficult psychological situations. A situation of loss and pain generates creative forces. An illness triggered fervent creativity in my mother. The trauma following her illness and death created in me a need to draw closer to the material she left behind, to her artistic creation, her handwriting, her voice.

    Through the texts and by sounding her voice I revive her image in some way, her unique hand writing that might even appear as sketches, her writing abilities; I preserve her voice and her acting abilities.

    I enter her draft texts with awe and trepidation. There is something profoundly intimate in reading the drafts, a going behind the scenes, the deletions, the unrefined sentences, the raw texts, a work in progress, the search process, the creative process. I am reluctant to touch the material, but there is a need to investigate the end, the hidden, the “absence” through the lines she left behind.

    This text was written after my mother's death. I did not finish this project. This work was never displayed as an installation. I did display my mother's drafts in a video-art.

    Sheli Lehadpasa (Mine for printing) Art constitutes a tool for contending with difficult psychological situations. A situation of loss and pain generates creative forces. An illness triggered fervent creativity in my mother. The trauma following her il ...

    Sheli Lehadpasa (Mine for printing)

    Art constitutes a tool for contending with difficult psychological situations. A situation of loss and pain generates creative forces. An illness triggered fervent creativity in my mother. The trauma following her illness and death created in me a need to draw closer to the material she left behind, to her artistic creation, her handwriting, her voice.

    Through the texts and by sounding her voice I revive her image in some way, her unique hand writing that might even appear as sketches, her writing abilities; I preserve her voice and her acting abilities.

    I enter her draft texts with awe and trepidation. There is something profoundly intimate in reading the drafts, a going behind the scenes, the deletions, the unrefined sentences, the raw texts, a work in progress, the search process, the creative process. I am reluctant to touch the material, but there is a need to investigate the end, the hidden, the “absence” through the lines she left behind.

    This text was written after my mother's death. I did not finish this project. This work was never displayed as an installation. I did display my mother's drafts in a video-art.