This blog (by Zeev Barkan) is dedicated to the Star of David, its history, its various meanings and usages in different cultures. It includes thousands of pictures of Star of David, six-pointed stars, hexagrams, Solomon's Seals, Magen Davids and yellow badges,and served as a resource for three books and four art exhibitions.
Photo of Star of David wall hanging is courtesy of "cross_and_star_of_david" who wrote to me Not much of a story behind it, the candle was for Shabbat, and I just took the picture at an angle to catch the star on the wall.
Photo is from Herzl's Newspaper, Die-Welt. Usually these two symbols of Zionism compete - here they appear together in harmony.
Photo of Star of David Needle Tower is courtesy of "Lukart" who published it on Flickr. The photo was taken at Kroller Muller Museum Holland. It is a Wire and metal outdoor sculpture made in 1969 by American sculptor Kenneth Snelson. The sculpture is 20 meters tall.
Photo is courtesy of Israeli painter and photographer Yaacov Kaszemacher, who created a series of Star of David paintings, each revealing another unknown aspect of this mysterious symbol. Here we see the Hebrew word Chai, ALIVE, in the center of a white and blue star of David and fire burning above the letters.Copyright: Yaacov_Kaszemacher 2007
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Truth and Absurdity, color giclee print on canvas. 56 x 56
The basis of this design is a large central Magen David constructed of 9 bars . As drawn by the artist, it is an optical illusion appearing three dimensional when in truth, it can not exist in three dimensions. The Hebrew word
אמת
has a numerical value of nine. The apparent contradiction between truth and the absurd is analogous to the existence of the Jewish people, who despite the hardships of exile and countless persecutions continue to survive. The nine bars are joined at 13 different points, creating 12 triangles. 13 refers to the
י''ג מדות הרחמים
and is also the gematria for the words
אחד
and
אהבה
Thus through the 13 qualities of HaShem's mercy, plus love the twelve tribes of Israel are united. This 9-bar Magen David was originally created by Kaszemacher as a pen and ink line drawing. In later renditions he made large acrylic paintings. What you see here began as a painting, then was photographed for scanning into a computer and then digitally manipulated adding the word
חי
life aglow with the fire of Torah. This basic design was then reduced and reproduced as multiple stars on the background. These smaller stars represent the sparks of the Jewish people as they drawn into the
קלל
from the six directions of the world
Photo is courtesy of Israeli painter and photographer Yaacov Kaszemacher, who created a series of Star of David paintings, each revealing another unknown aspect of this mysterious symbol. Here we see a composition of many red stars of David on a blue background. In the center we see a smaller version of the same composition in other colors which seems three dimensional
Photo is courtesy of Israeli painter and photographer Yaacov Kaszemacher, who created a series of Star of David paintings, each revealing another unknown aspect of this mysterious symbol. Here we see a small star of David in the center of a big ball. 
