In The Name Of Love

This notebook is one of a set of twelve created over the past two years, since the outbreak of the October 2023 war.

I wished to conclude the cycle of twelve notebooks with a feeling of love, out of the belief that love strengthens, empowers, fills, and charges people with energies of goodness and creativity.

I began the notebook with the image of a cult figurine of the goddess Venus—known as the Venus of Willendorf—and soon after, cave paintings of bulls emerged from an art book.

The notebook’s accumulating pages were created in a monochrome palette of black and white, in a drawing technique suggestive of a purified beginning. At the heart of the love story that unfolds are two central figures: Venus, representing the woman, and the bull, embodying the man.

A layered dialogue develops between the pair. The title of the notebook is taken from Meir Banai’s song “In the Name of Love, which itself refers to Natan Alterman’s poem “Ancient Tune.”* Both works speak of love between human beings, and—by extension—of a person’s love for their homeland.