 Minyan Mixed Media Drawings on Paper by Annette Turow |
| The word minyan can be translated as a minimum number of ten. The ten images in this piece represent the visual minyan I have created to represent the various emotions at work around a Jewish prayer for the dead, called Kaddish. The images are meant to express the many levels of experiences occurring within the community and the mourners. This piece is not meant to be an interpretation of the words in the actual prayer. The images present the complex interaction among feelings of grief, time, respect, commanded obligation, love and faith. |
| I began with Tears: Grief Gems (1) which is the figure lying down with both hands extending from the head. |
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Surrender
of the Heart
(2,3 ) came next where I tried to express the profound moment when the reality of the moment is accepted, both in a religious and secular sense. The female figure and the opposing figures at the top comprise this idea. |
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| Role Reversal(4,5) expresses the new roles taken at these moments of change. These two images are in one of the folds, the circular figure, emerging from the triangular one. Giving and Taking |  |
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Alone and Among(6) is by itself in another of the folds. The reclining figure covers its eyes, trying to be alone among the community that surrounds and supports it. | |
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Giving
and Taking (7,8) represents two figures, one blessing the other, exchanging the love and knowledge shared between parent and child. |
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From
Generation to Generation (9,10) completes the minyan as the parents present the child in the continuity of the generations |
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Kaddish  |
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