{"id":350,"date":"2015-12-21T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.lindsaywelch.com\/?page_id=350"},"modified":"2016-08-12T21:53:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T21:53:53","slug":"kafka-and-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/?page_id=350","title":{"rendered":"Kafka and the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Kafka and the Bible<\/h4>\n<p><style type='text\/css'>\n\t#ngg-gallery-44a2ac9ff8ea66e7bb4307775929464f .ngg-pro-masonry-item {\n\t\tmargin-bottom: 10px;\n\t}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"ngg-pro-masonry-wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"ngg-pro-masonry-spinner\">\n\t\t<i class='fa fa-spin fa-spinner'><\/i>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"ngg-pro-masonry\" id=\"ngg-gallery-44a2ac9ff8ea66e7bb4307775929464f\">\n\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-gutter' style='width: 10px'><\/div>\n\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-sizer' style='width: 250px'><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-item' style='height: 252px; max-width: 250px;'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/The-Building-of-the-Temple.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle=\"&lt;em&gt;The Building of the Temple&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;(text Kafka) &lt;br \/&gt; 1993 &lt;br \/&gt; Mixed media on canvas (photos, Xerox transfer, acrylic, pencil, pastel on canvas)&lt;br \/&gt; 44 x 44 inches &lt;br \/&gt; Collection Florida Holocaust Museum &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; I first used Kafka\u2019s words in &lt;em&gt;The Building of the Temple&lt;\/em&gt;, both in response to a challenge from writer Harvey Blume, a colleague in loving Kafka, and as a means for addressing the cultural richness of pre-Holocaust European Jewish society. Additionally, Kafka\u2019s stories are some of the most powerful I know for describing life\u2019s absurdity and the downsides of modernity. They continue to be generators of images and vehicles for ideas in my work.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/The-Building-of-the-Temple.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/cache\/The-Building-of-the-Temple.jpg-nggid0258-ngg0dyn-500x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"58\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"The Building of the Temple\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-description=\"&lt;em&gt;The Building of the Temple&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;(text Kafka) &lt;br \/&gt; 1993 &lt;br \/&gt; Mixed media on canvas (photos, Xerox transfer, acrylic, pencil, pastel on canvas)&lt;br \/&gt; 44 x 44 inches &lt;br \/&gt; Collection Florida Holocaust Museum &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; I first used Kafka\u2019s words in &lt;em&gt;The Building of the Temple&lt;\/em&gt;, both in response to a challenge from writer Harvey Blume, a colleague in loving Kafka, and as a means for addressing the cultural richness of pre-Holocaust European Jewish society. Additionally, Kafka\u2019s stories are some of the most powerful I know for describing life\u2019s absurdity and the downsides of modernity. They continue to be generators of images and vehicles for ideas in my work.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ngg-captions-nostylecopy=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"44a2ac9ff8ea66e7bb4307775929464f\" data-ngg-protect=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\n<img title=\"The Building of the Temple\" alt=\"The Building of the Temple\" width=\"250\" height=\"252\" style=\"max-width:250px;max-height:252px\" src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/cache\/The-Building-of-the-Temple.jpg-nggid0258-ngg0dyn-250x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-item' style='height: 261px; max-width: 250px;'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/And-Sarah-was-right-to-laugh.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle=\"&lt;em&gt;And Sarah was right to laugh&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;(title: Kafka) &lt;br \/&gt; 1996 &lt;br \/&gt; Copy photos, charcoal, ash, burnt paper, acrylic medium &lt;br \/&gt; 36 x 36 inches &lt;br \/&gt; Collection The Museum at Hebrew Union College, NY &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; &quot;And Sara was right to laugh&quot; is a line from one of Kafka\u2019s parables. Referring to Sara\u2019s reaction to her pregnancy in Genesis, her laughter has been interpreted in many ways. I felt that, given the events of history, Sara, the Hebrew matriarch, was entitled to scoff at her potential motherhood. &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; The use of rape as a tool of war was very much in the news in the 1990s due to its use first during the Rwandan genocide and then the break up of the former Yugoslavia. In the first, violent rape was a mechanism of terror used to promote the ethnic cleansing of the Tutsi Rwandans; in the second, largely of the Bosnian Muslim population. An estimated up to half a million Tutsi women and between 12,000 to 50,000 Bosnian Muslim women were victims. &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; Genocidal rape has since been termed a crime against humanity. In my attempt to address the issue, I remembered the relevant short parable of Kafka\u2019s that gave me direction for this piece.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/And-Sarah-was-right-to-laugh.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/cache\/And-Sarah-was-right-to-laugh.jpg-nggid0255-ngg0dyn-500x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"55\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"And Sarah was right to laugh\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-description=\"&lt;em&gt;And Sarah was right to laugh&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;(title: Kafka) &lt;br \/&gt; 1996 &lt;br \/&gt; Copy photos, charcoal, ash, burnt paper, acrylic medium &lt;br \/&gt; 36 x 36 inches &lt;br \/&gt; Collection The Museum at Hebrew Union College, NY &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; &quot;And Sara was right to laugh&quot; is a line from one of Kafka\u2019s parables. Referring to Sara\u2019s reaction to her pregnancy in Genesis, her laughter has been interpreted in many ways. I felt that, given the events of history, Sara, the Hebrew matriarch, was entitled to scoff at her potential motherhood. &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; The use of rape as a tool of war was very much in the news in the 1990s due to its use first during the Rwandan genocide and then the break up of the former Yugoslavia. In the first, violent rape was a mechanism of terror used to promote the ethnic cleansing of the Tutsi Rwandans; in the second, largely of the Bosnian Muslim population. An estimated up to half a million Tutsi women and between 12,000 to 50,000 Bosnian Muslim women were victims. &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; Genocidal rape has since been termed a crime against humanity. In my attempt to address the issue, I remembered the relevant short parable of Kafka\u2019s that gave me direction for this piece.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ngg-captions-nostylecopy=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"44a2ac9ff8ea66e7bb4307775929464f\" data-ngg-protect=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\n<img title=\"And Sarah was right to laugh\" alt=\"And Sarah was right to laugh\" width=\"250\" height=\"261\" style=\"max-width:250px;max-height:261px\" src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/cache\/And-Sarah-was-right-to-laugh.jpg-nggid0255-ngg0dyn-250x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-item' style='height: 195px; max-width: 250px;'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/9006.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle=\"&lt;em&gt;The Great Wall an the Tower of Babel&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;(text: Kafka) &lt;br \/&gt; 1997 &lt;br \/&gt; Copy photos, charcoal, charcoal lumps, acrylic &lt;br \/&gt; 35 x 45 inches &lt;br \/&gt; Collection The Museum at Hebrew Union College, NY &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; The two paragraph text of the Kafka parable, after which this piece is titled, is itself is part of its imagery. Kafka wrote of a scholar who\u2019s book claimed that the original Tower of Babel did not succeed because of its flawed foundation, and that the Great Wall of China would provide a secure foundation for a new tower. Kafka\u2019s second paragraph reads: &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; &quot;There were many wild ideas in people\u2019s heads at that time \u2013 this scholar\u2019s book is only one example \u2013 perhaps simply because so many were trying to join forces as far as they could for the achievement of a single aim. Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds and its very self.&quot; &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; The photographs I used to build the wall and the tower are of the Warsaw Ghetto.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/9006.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/cache\/9006.jpg-nggid0254-ngg0dyn-500x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"54\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"The Great Wall an the Tower of Babel\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-description=\"&lt;em&gt;The Great Wall an the Tower of Babel&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;(text: Kafka) &lt;br \/&gt; 1997 &lt;br \/&gt; Copy photos, charcoal, charcoal lumps, acrylic &lt;br \/&gt; 35 x 45 inches &lt;br \/&gt; Collection The Museum at Hebrew Union College, NY &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; The two paragraph text of the Kafka parable, after which this piece is titled, is itself is part of its imagery. Kafka wrote of a scholar who\u2019s book claimed that the original Tower of Babel did not succeed because of its flawed foundation, and that the Great Wall of China would provide a secure foundation for a new tower. Kafka\u2019s second paragraph reads: &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; &quot;There were many wild ideas in people\u2019s heads at that time \u2013 this scholar\u2019s book is only one example \u2013 perhaps simply because so many were trying to join forces as far as they could for the achievement of a single aim. Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds and its very self.&quot; &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; The photographs I used to build the wall and the tower are of the Warsaw Ghetto.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ngg-captions-nostylecopy=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"44a2ac9ff8ea66e7bb4307775929464f\" data-ngg-protect=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\n<img title=\"The Great Wall an the Tower of Babel\" alt=\"The Great Wall an the Tower of Babel\" width=\"250\" height=\"195\" style=\"max-width:250px;max-height:195px\" src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/cache\/9006.jpg-nggid0254-ngg0dyn-250x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='ngg-pro-masonry-item' style='height: 279px; max-width: 250px;'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/But-Take-Another-Abraham.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle=\"&lt;em&gt;But Take Another Abraham&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;1994 &lt;br \/&gt; Acrylic and pencil on canvas, suspended from lead strip &lt;br \/&gt; 87 x 78 inches &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; These words are taken from Kafka\u2019s parable, &lt;em&gt;On Abraham&lt;\/em&gt;: &lt;br \/&gt;&quot;But take another Abraham. One who wanted to perform the sacrifice altogether in the right way and had a correct sense in general of the whole affair, but could not believe that he was the one meant, he, an ugly old man, and the dirty youngster that was his child. True faith is not lacking to him, he has this faith; he would make the sacrifice in the right spirit if only he could believe he was the one meant. He is afraid that after starting out as Abraham with his son he would change on the way into Don Quixote. The world would have been outraged at Abraham could it have beheld him at the time, but this one is afraid that the world would laugh itself to death at the sight of him. However, it is not the ridiculousness as such that he is afraid of \u2013 though he is, of course, afraid of that too and, above all, of his joining in the laughter \u2013 but in the main he is afraid that this ridiculousness will make him even older and uglier, his son even dirtier, even more unworthy of being really called. An Abraham who should come unsummoned! It is as if, at the end of the year, when the best student was solemnly about to receive a prize, the worst student rose in the expectant stillness and came forward from his dirty desk in the last row because he had made a mistake of hearing, and the whole class burst out laughing. And perhaps he had made no mistake at all, his name really was called, it having been the teacher\u2019s intention to make the rewarding of the best student at the same time a punishment for the worst one.&quot;\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/But-Take-Another-Abraham.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/cache\/But-Take-Another-Abraham.jpg-nggid0256-ngg0dyn-500x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"56\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"But Take Another Abraham\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-description=\"&lt;em&gt;But Take Another Abraham&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;1994 &lt;br \/&gt; Acrylic and pencil on canvas, suspended from lead strip &lt;br \/&gt; 87 x 78 inches &lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; These words are taken from Kafka\u2019s parable, &lt;em&gt;On Abraham&lt;\/em&gt;: &lt;br \/&gt;&quot;But take another Abraham. One who wanted to perform the sacrifice altogether in the right way and had a correct sense in general of the whole affair, but could not believe that he was the one meant, he, an ugly old man, and the dirty youngster that was his child. True faith is not lacking to him, he has this faith; he would make the sacrifice in the right spirit if only he could believe he was the one meant. He is afraid that after starting out as Abraham with his son he would change on the way into Don Quixote. The world would have been outraged at Abraham could it have beheld him at the time, but this one is afraid that the world would laugh itself to death at the sight of him. However, it is not the ridiculousness as such that he is afraid of \u2013 though he is, of course, afraid of that too and, above all, of his joining in the laughter \u2013 but in the main he is afraid that this ridiculousness will make him even older and uglier, his son even dirtier, even more unworthy of being really called. An Abraham who should come unsummoned! It is as if, at the end of the year, when the best student was solemnly about to receive a prize, the worst student rose in the expectant stillness and came forward from his dirty desk in the last row because he had made a mistake of hearing, and the whole class burst out laughing. And perhaps he had made no mistake at all, his name really was called, it having been the teacher\u2019s intention to make the rewarding of the best student at the same time a punishment for the worst one.&quot;\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ngg-captions-nostylecopy=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"44a2ac9ff8ea66e7bb4307775929464f\" data-ngg-protect=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\n<img title=\"But Take Another Abraham\" alt=\"But Take Another Abraham\" width=\"250\" height=\"279\" style=\"max-width:250px;max-height:279px\" src=\"https:\/\/susanerony.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/kafka-and-the-bible\/cache\/But-Take-Another-Abraham.jpg-nggid0256-ngg0dyn-250x0-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Artist Statement<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I came to artistically address the Bible through my interest in the writings of Franz Kafka, many of whose parables reinterpret biblical stories. Kafka explains the world in a way that ameliorates my normal confusion about it. As his parables began to enter my work, I experienced a growing fascination with the power of the original biblical stories, and the power of the Bible itself in the West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As someone without faith, I understand the desire for it, but not the act itself. Though I feel great wonder and awe in response to nature and the arts, my spiritual life centers on visual art. It is where I find the most meaning and deepest sense of safety, and where I perform devotional practices. When my interest in Kafka opened up a desire to read the Bible from <i>Genesis<\/i> through <i>Revelations<\/i>, I felt that I needed a spiritual ritual to do so. That led to the last piece in this portfolio, <i>Representation for a Ritual of Unease.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kafka and the Bible #ngg-gallery-44a2ac9ff8ea66e7bb4307775929464f .ngg-pro-masonry-item { margin-bottom: 10px; } Artist Statement I came to artistically address the Bible through my interest in the writings of Franz Kafka, many of whose parables reinterpret biblical stories. Kafka explains the world in a way that ameliorates my normal confusion about it. 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