The Blocks

From:

1. The Notepad of Yemeni Soldiers
2. The Notepad of Female Pioneers
3. Future Notepad but Without a Past
4. Notepad of Song Riddles
   Facsimile edition

"It started from memory, that is, desire. I decided to keep a diary to understand things that were not clear to me. My first teacher wasn’t really a teacher and that’s why he was good. He would sit in class with a notepad and make 30 drawings a class. He had pencils, and every now and then he would rap someone on the hand with a ruler. From time to time, a drawing of his would be published in the newspaper. I still have a dream that one day I will have a notepad and will draw in it. You could say that many of my works begin out of jealousy of someone who I really have no reason to be jealous of. For example, a person writes a letter in a cafe, a person sends a message by horse to his beloved. The notepads were created at a time when there was no email. At the time when postcards arrived in the country after you had already returned from your trip. These are intimate, quick works, which have greatly upgraded my trips abroad. This is how a tradition began, from which artist’s books were created. Each notepad is the product of a certain period; sometimes I give them a topic: Kibbutz and Agriculture, Israeliness, Judaism, the Jewish Town, Berlin and more."
-- Yair Garbuz