Never Forget

Never Forget

A red rosin painting in tribute to all who experienced the Holocaust - their courage, their faith, their entreaty to "Never forget" in order to keep anything so horrible on such a massive scale from ever happening again.


I used a dark palette of raw umber, black, burnt sienna and hooker's green for the background over gesso; textured with netting, cheesecloth, aluminum tape and twine. Xerox copies of the Star of David crossed with barbed wire were coloured with light blue and brown Portfolio water soluble oil pastels and affixed with matte medium, as were strips of Hebrew letters in pale blue and pink.


Gold and blue stars were stenciled on using a Star of David stencil found on www.spraypaintstencils.com. Barbed wire and star rubber stamps were applied with black StazOn ink. Pieces of mattress ticking were torn and "aged" with brown Portfolios and water. Small charms - Stars of David and Torahs - were sewn on and the ticking was attached with heavy gel medium. More charms were tied onto the netting at the bottom of the piece.

Portfolios were used as highlights on netting and cheesecloth. Drips and spatters of blue, cream, black and gold finished the piece.