USA Israel Relations Tattoo

Copyright: Alan Miller 2008
From the comments at his Flickr page: "altefeigele" says:

The Tat suggests to me that the American Eagle is grabbing the Star of David in its talons and is prepared to fly with it somewhere, probably to the Eagle's nest to feed its chicks.

Alan Miller answers:

The guy is American and told me he got the tattoo soon after September 11th, 2001. It could be Pres. Bush getting his hands on Israel after his visit. Or the Israeli police getting their talons in Prime Minister Olmert. But I'll go with the guy's explanation.

Chai Tattoo

Chai inside a Star of David Tattoo

Copyright: Alan Miller

Yossi Regev, Never Again

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Yossi Regev

Copyright: Yossi Regev 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: postcard

Title: No More

Artist’s Caption: I created this work in 1985 and eventually it was published as a remembrance postcard in 1990, and it was distributed in a survivors reunion of “Buchenvald children” in Tel Aviv. My father was one of these “Buchenvald children”.

Orly Shafir, The Tree of Life

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Orly Shafir

Copyright: Orly Shafir 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: 50/70 cm

Technique: oil on canvas

Title: The Tree of Life

Artist’s Caption: The tree resembles the Jewish people. It is a big tree with deep roots. It continues to live and to grow even though all along history there were (and still are) attempts to remove it and to cut its branches.
Orly says that the yellow badge is a symbol of spiritual heroism, which is quite different from the military heroism.

Heavy Symbol Made From Basalt

Photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Chanoch Ben

Copyright: Chanoch Ben Dov 2008

Currently this work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Size: 170X85 cm

Technique: sculpture, Stone, iron, cloth

Title: Heavy Yellow Holocaust Star

Artist’s Caption: I wanted to express the heavy feeling that the Yellow Holocaust Star evokes. Above: six candle holder for the 6,000,000

The artist’s parents were East European Jews who survived the Holocaust.

The usage of Death camps’ uniform stripes is quite frequent in the artistic treatment of the Yellow Holocaust Star, and for some of the artists it is connected to the coat of many colors Jacob gave to Joseph.

The Star and The Sea

Photo by: Hayim Shtayer

Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

A sign with the drawing of bandaged fingers with a [red] Magen David (in black).

Synonymic Symbols

Map of Israel is a separare symbol, meaning more or less the same as the Star of David. I call these symbols "synonymic symbols" and there's a whole family of them: Herzl, Western Wall, Menorah, Ten Commandments, lions, the word Zion, Srulik... These symbols tend to appear in pairs and in triads in order to strengthen their mutual message.
Copyright: Alan Miller 2008 who has a whole series of photos of the Black Widow Rock Band