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MY ART |  from the photo series "KING SIZE" 2009

Love is as strong as death | Song of songs (shir hashirim)

Cemeteries are libraries of people.

A life of a person is his novel and the gravestone is its cover.

The photo series reflects couple’s burial settings. The “king size” grave embodies a statement on their relationship: the gravestone choice, the decoration, saving the spot for the day that will come and what is left for the future of the one staying behind.

Through the research, I found a rich diversity of “king size beds” (couple’s graves): one large gravestone or separated, with or without head board, with pillows, plants, artificial flowers, marble, stone, sculpture and more.

The series aims to reflect the decoration of the couple’s burial ceremony, to evoke thoughts and quandary about the enigma behind the banal details, the extraordinary, the revealed and hidden. The photographic process went through reduction from the whole to detail, from reality to abstract, from material to spirit.

The photographs were taken in “ordinary” cemeteries, old and new in the suburbs in center Israel: Hod Hasharon, Ramat Hasharon, Ramot Hashavim, Bat Yam, and Raanana.

these are a selected few from the photo series.