The seven drawings that comprise Sephirot are a "game piece" that take my ongoing time-based work into an exploration of omer, the seven-week period between Passover and Shavuot. Each week is sequentially represented by a Star of David, containing seven geometric elements. Using events of Jewish concern as a parameter, I created a drawing each day throughout this period. For the duration of the omer I became the proverbial "wandering Jew", and the drawings chronicle my journey. The omer binds the notion of Passover's freedom to Shavuot's practice of ritual. The ritualistic parameters and constraints that I select afford me greater creative freedom.
Sephirot II
1. Conceptual artist Sol Lewitt dies at 78
2. 96 year-old author, Harry Bernstein publishes first novel, "The Invisible Wall" living in retirement home in New Jersey
3. Alan Dershowitz tries to block Norman Finkelstein from receiving tenure at De Paul University on grounds of antisemitism and poor scholarship
4. 1916 program for pro-assimilation play by Israel Zangwill
5. Nathan Englander's first novel "Ministry of Special Cases"
6. Petr Ginz's diaries of his life before his death in Auschwitz in 1944, displayed by his surviving sister, Chava Pressburger
7. Edgar Bronfman, President of the World Jewish Congress