Landscape Pattern
Ora Brill
2025
Home, a Person and Landscape
This notebook is one of a set of twelve I have created since the outbreak of October 7. It engages with a basic landscape pattern that I am exploring. The notebook was made in 2025, at a time when Israeli society is mired in chaos, danger, wars of every kind, loss, and grief.
I incorporated human figures from another era, adopting a romantic lens through which to view the contemporary story. The landscapes are those of Jerusalem, a city charged with religious and cultural tensions. The plants were chosen for their symbolic resonance within the story of the land: the Seven Species; the anemone, representing the danger that shadowed the communities along the Gaza border; the sabra, identified with the inhabitants of the land; and the cyclamen, emblematic of endurance in the face of harsh living conditions.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 20
- Type of binding: Thick cardboard
- Dimensions (cm): 40x20
- Type of printing: Mixed media
- Publication: Self-published
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
Ora Brill, a graduate of the Oranim Art Institute and Lesley College, lives and works in Kfar Hess and Tel Aviv. She studied under artists such as Ya’acov Dorchin, Michael Gross, and Uri Lifschitz. Brill is a member of the cooperative gallery “Makom Le’omanut” in Kiryat Ha’Melacha, Tel Aviv, and of the Association for Women’s Art and Gender in Israel. She has presented a wide range of solo and group exhibitions in Israel.
