Love Is Strong As Death Itself
Yehoshua (Shuka) Glotman
2019
I have a friend from Japan who prepares a gift for each of our meetings. As soon as I feel that the gift has the potential to become a work of art, I put it in the studio, wrapped in the original wrapping paper. This gift included a folder with an envelope containing five postcards decorated in Japanese. I call the book Love is Fierce Like Death, and the postcards are called “The Color Red, Japanese Mantra.” On each postcard I created a kind of haiku, which refers to what is happening in the Gaza Strip. For example, there is a postcard that says “the walls of the house shook.” Also in this work are phrases that I pick up from the everyday public discourse as a result of the political conflict.
- Copies: 1
- Type of binding: Paper envelope
- Dimensions (cm): גלויה 15X19.5, מעטפה 10X11
- Publication: self published
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Yehoshua (Shuka) Glotman was born in 1953 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and lives and works in Abirim in the western Galilee. He is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and teacher, and is also a facilitator for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. Glotman studied in the photography department at Hadassah College in Jerusalem and the University of Westminster in London. His photography, photomontage and video work relate to the Israeli reality and its unique inter cultural situations. In 2015, he published a second edition of his artist book An Israeli’s Album, first published in the 1980s and became a cornerstone in the field of Israeli photography.
