Shards by Chaim Bezalel
|
Return for Redemption, 19x12x4 in. |
The “Shards” series is predominantly assemblages with hand made clay or porcelain tiles containing original photographic laser decals burned into the glaze. These are contained in shadow boxes or other display mechanisms, sometimes with found objects.
|
|
World Trade Center, extruded forms with burned in decals, 14x17x13 in. |
|

Ruins
of Ashkelon, 7 x 36 in.,
original photographic laser decals on high fired clay with found
Byzantine era pottery shards

Aviary,
7 ½ x 27 in.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Enjoying Everyday Life (TV Evangelists), 7 x 21 in. |
||
|
|
|
|
|
Cloud of Witnesses (crowd surging through the Vatican) diptych, 24 x 20 each frame |
|
|
|
Gaza Celebrates Yeshiva Massacre (photo by Reuters) “Pour out thy wrath on the heathen that have not known thee ...” (Psalm 79:6, also found in the Passover Haggadah) illustration and calligraphy on the two left tiles taken from the Darmstadt Haggadah ca. 1430, Scribe: Israel ben Meir of Heidelberg (size 6 x 34 in.) |
||
|
detail
|
detail
|
|
|
Dem Bones, 9 x 35 in., laser decals on porcelain with skull and horns |
||
|
Our Town, 21 x 17 in., laser decals on porcelain with antique Ambrotype photographic montage on glass |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
New Moon Tammuz II, 11 ½ x 9 ¾
|
||
|
|
|
|
Free Standing Assemblage and Sculpture
|
|
|
I Want You, 19 x 12 x 4 in., laser decals on clay and found objects in 7-UP crate |
|
|
|
|
|
Upstate, Winter, 14 x 21 x 5 in., Terracotta with laser decals, brass, wood |
|
|
See the video of "Lodgepole Pine" documenting the installation in which the artist threw balls of clay at the trunk of a large tree and hours later carefully removed the now dried impressions of the bark, pinecones, branches, and needles. After firing they were affixed to galvanized nails and attached to a suspended piece of driftwood. The accompanying music is Paul Robeson singing Joyce Kilmer's beloved poem, "Trees," (1913) set to the music of Oscar Rasbach and recorded in 1939.
|
|
|
|
links to related work
|
|