Playing Around

A circle of black Stars of David on white background is the outcome of artist Sabina Saad's playing around with her camera.
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
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I am Lion of Zion

Two lions
Two peacocks
Two palm trees
and one SIX pointed star
Copyright: Dvorit Ben Shaul 2008
Technique: colored pencils on paper
Inspired by Bob Marley lyrics:

See they want to be the star
So they fighting tribal war
And they saying iron like a lion in zion

Zodiac with Hexagram

Zodiac with hexagrams scattered around the astrological signs printed by Nicolas le Rouge and published in the book titled Le grant kalendrier des Bergiers, 1496 Troyes France

Golda Meir Shirt

A Star of David appears on the sleeve of a Golda-Meir-shirt made by Naomi Meiberg. Naomi Meiberg is a good friend of Drora Weizman, who told me that she wears this shirt as a delicate tattoo, and she likes this shirt, mainly on account of the modest place that the Magen David takes there.

Copyright: Drora Weizman 2008

Symbol of Ownership or Symbol of Coexistence

Picture of Magen David above the entrance to the Tomb of Shimon Hatzadik (Shimon the Righteous) in the old city of Jerusalem is courtesy of Anat Skili.
Copyright: Anat Skili 2008
Thanks to Dobush from Kfar Aza for referring me to her blog.
Shimon Hatzadik was the last of Anshei Knesset Hagedolah. Legend has it that he met Alexander the great in Jerusalem.
The Tomb of Shimon Hatzadik is a controversial place: Arabs and Jews claim ownership on it. I guess that this Magen David is meant to show the Arabs that the place is holy to the Jews. I am quite sure that the drawer didn’t know that the six-pointed star is Muslim not less than Jewish, and in fact it represents coexistence, but if one is satisfied with his ignorance why do I bother to disturb him?

Tombstone of a Jewish soldier

Picture of a Magen David mark on a tombstone of a Jewish soldier in the British Military Cemetery in Ramla was taken two years ago by Dobush from Kfar Aza.
Copyright: Dobush 2008

Dvora Morag, Decoration Committee

Stars of David appear on the work “Decoration Committee” by Dvora Morag.

Copyright: Dvora Morag 2008

Artist Dvora Morag teaches art at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, The Kalisher campus, 5 Kalisher Street, Tel Aviv.

Technique: Black paper clips along with colorful cellophane papers inspired by the aesthetics of Hanukkah decorations of elementary schools in Israel.

Concept: The work deals with the Holocuast. It includes images borrowed from different sources. These images are part of the Israeli-Jewish and, actually, the human consciousness. Among these images we find the main building in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as well as the boy from Warsaw Ghetto, raising his hands.

Such images are tattooed into our minds during our early childhhod, mainly through education in elementary schools. Later they blend and create new connotations.

The above picture is a detail from the whole work, which can be zoomed in by clicking the All Sizes Command above each picture in Flickr.