This Making a Place for Peace
Judith Margolis
2003
A Book In A Box
During the Second Intifada, a political crisis specific to the Middle East, but applicable everywhere, the atmosphere here bristled with tension, grief, and weariness. With the intention of Making a Place for Peace in my mind and heart, I would go to my studio and alter the pages of the proof dummy of The Elections in Israel 2001* with written words [prayers, affirmations, and blessings]. I collaged, images of people, animals, objects, and especially painted throughout, a saturated Moroccan blue gouache. The paint and images barely conceal the text and statistical charts on the loosely bound signatures. The result is visual midrash (commentary) meant to Comfort and Pacify the reader. Question to self: did it work?
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 28
- Type of binding: Paperback in a Cardboard Candy Box
- Dimensions (cm): 23X15X3
- Type of printing: Hand Made
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas & Shiraz Grinbaum
Judith Margolis is an Israel-based American essayist and artist who makes paintings, drawings, artist's books, and multi-media collages. Much of her work explores tensions between consciousness, feminism, and religious ritual tradition. Since 2000, Margolis has been the Art Editor of Nashim: The Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, published by Indiana University Press. She is the Creative Director of Bright Idea Books, which produces limited edition and unique artist's books. She lives and works in Jerusalem.
