moving right along...

So all my ideas are coming together for my third body of work. After my trip to Israel my concept has morphed and developed and now I am excited to apply these new inspirations. While walking through the town and thousand year old cobble stone paths, I concentrated on the patterns created by the stones interacting with one another. I took many photos of the walls and buildings that caught my eye. The way the shapes overlay and interact remind me of my previous organism drawings. Although I am very interested in creating drawings based on my observations, I am also haunted by another life changing experience. I went to Sderot where there are rockets fired over the Gaza border daily. I saw the town and went to the police station where they keep the fired rockets which are all labeled and stacked. I have amazing pictures of these rockets and the way they curl after being shot from so far with such intense heat. I feel very strongly about the craziness that is going on over there with terror being dealt with everyday. There are bomb shelters every 15 seconds from one another and sirens that echo through the air with "Code Red" warnings when rockets are sensed. I am sorting through and figuring out what I want to do. Do I want to focus on the stone work and keep it simple and aesthetically interesting or do I want to attack this very emotional issue of terror at the Gaza strip??? ANY THOUGHTS???