Formation started as a trip to the Jaffa Flea Market. In 2015 I found a duffle bag full of letters, notebooks, photos and other personal effects from the 1930s, forties and fifties. Yielding to curiosity and taking visual cues from the items themselves, I began intuitively incorporating these scraps into my paintings as an exploration of the marks we make and collect throughout our lives. Each work became a curated collection of signatures and stamps, lists and letters, receipts and forms - the paper trail of Israel’s formation. In this way I gently tease out the humanity behind the artifacts in a celebration of the things we create and the things we leave behind.
Gordon Beach
30x30 cm
12x12 inch
Acrylic on wood
White City
12x12 inches
30x30 cm
Acrylic and collage on wood
