Wednesday, May 21, 2008

USA Israel Relations Tattoo

USA Israel Relations star of David Tattoo

Copyright: Alan Miller 2008
From the comments at his Flickr page: "altefeigele" says:

The Tat suggests to me that the American Eagle is grabbing the Star of David in its talons and is prepared to fly with it somewhere, probably to the Eagle's nest to feed its chicks.

Alan Miller answers:

The guy is American and told me he got the tattoo soon after September 11th, 2001. It could be Pres. Bush getting his hands on Israel after his visit. Or the Israeli police getting their talons in Prime Minister Olmert. But I'll go with the guy's explanation.

Chai Tattoo

Star of David Tattoo

Chai inside a Star of David Tattoo

Copyright: Alan Miller

Yossi Regev, Never Again

Israeli ART, Yellow Badge Never Again

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Yossi Regev

Copyright: Yossi Regev 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: postcard

Title: No More

Artist’s Caption: I created this work in 1985 and eventually it was published as a remembrance postcard in 1990, and it was distributed in a survivors reunion of “Buchenvald children” in Tel Aviv. My father was one of these “Buchenvald children”.

Orly Shafir, The Tree of Life

Tree of Life Israeli ART Yellow Badge

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Orly Shafir

Copyright: Orly Shafir 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: 50/70 cm

Technique: oil on canvas

Title: The Tree of Life

Artist’s Caption: The tree resembles the Jewish people. It is a big tree with deep roots. It continues to live and to grow even though all along history there were (and still are) attempts to remove it and to cut its branches.
Orly says that the yellow badge is a symbol of spiritual heroism, which is quite different from the military heroism.