Wailing Wall Postcard

Photographer Naomi Tereza Salmon shot this photo of the Wailing Wall in a Star of David frame; it is part of a series titled: Black Box.

The Souvenir Series includes:

1. Black Box - Souvenir from Israel

2. Sehnsucht Heimat - Souvenir from Tirol

3. European Eyes on Japan - Souvenir from Tokyo

4. The Aftermath - Souvenir from Holocaust Memorials

5. MZG - Souvenir from the GDR

6. Zwiebeltown - Souvenir from Weimar

7. Bin There Done That - Souvenir from 9/11

8. D.O.M (Lighters)

9. Fundamental Bonbons

These Souvenirs, according to the artist:

… are mini-copies, memories of a trip, a stay somewhere, a moment. They come from a home, which they want to mirror, into a strange land: fragments of memory, chunks of yearning, signs of history, evidence of existence, knick-knacks.

Copyright: Naomi Tereza Salmon 2008

Misplaced Price Tag

Photographer Naomi Tereza Salmon shot this photo, which shows a price tag near a Yellow Badge, and raises the troubling question if there is a price to the Holocaust or if every thing in our world is already commercialized.

Trust inside the Hexagon

Photographer Naomi Tereza Salmo shot this photo; it is part of a series titled: Black Box. The Hebrew words (trust, purity) that you see here have double meaning and make one wonder what happened to the Israeli society (represented by the Magen David)  in relation to core values like battle morals and trust in the State.

Copyright: Naomi Tereza Salmon 2008

Happy New Year Diaspora

Star of David on a Happy New Year Card from the beginning of the 19th century is from Hayim Shtayer’s excellent and famous collection of Happy New Year Cards. It most probably expresses the longing for the return of Israel to the Promised Land. The Hebrew caption is strange and looks like a mistake: If I’ll forget you, Diaspora…instead of: If I’ll forget you, Jerusalem.

Zion Gate Happy New Year Card

Star of David alongside the Ten Commandments on a Happy New Year Card from the beginning of the 19th century is from Hayim Shtayer’s excellent and famous collection of Happy New Year Cards. The troupes that march into Zion Gate express IMHO the expectation for the termination of the Diaspora Era. In those days it seemed contrary to any logic to even expect it, but as we all know the Return of Zion materialized. We can only draw encouragement from it to the peace in the Middle East …

To Childhood And Back

The painted bottle of Dvorit Ben Shaul and the porcelain six-pointed Star pendant that Dick Ben Dor brought me from Holland on my son’s car at the entrance to our house in the fresh snow, that made me feel like a child and experiment how things look when the known environment becomes odd.

My Hebrew Book in the Snow

I just wanted to see if the colors of the front cover of my Hebrew book fit the colors of the fresh new snow that conquered Jerusalem and brought us blesses silence for 24 hours, because no vehicle dared acting as if business was as usual, oh no...