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 VII

1. Henry Kissinger, co-credited along with Richard Nixon for ending Cold War in new book by author Robert Dallek
2. Israel-trained counterterrorism canine, Rex, on duty in Alameda, Texas
3. Novelist David Grossman on losing his son in the Lebanon War of 2006
4. Actress Simone Signoret in Melville's classic "Army of Shadows"
5. Israeli welder, circa 1952- exhibition at ICP of David Seymour's photographs
6. John K. Lattimer- Nurenberg doctor who speculated about Hitler having Parkinson's Disease, and JFK assassination ballistics expert
7. Lee Marvin, actor in "The Killers"