Thursday, September 9, 2010

"Water, Water", 2001, oil/wood. 21"-22". Dedicated to Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan who survived the Holocaust but ended his life in water. Here is an example of Celan reading a poem in German about the Holocaust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gVwLqEHDCQE
And the English translation: http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/deathfugue.html

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