| Why create? To shout. Why keep on creating after the Shoah? To keep on shouting and preventing another one. To say: a flower is not a flower, To say: nails in a block of concrete and some cobblestones around it can also be a flower. If you dare looking at, imagining and loving this pile of rubbish that is our world, you may find beauty in it. |
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CHINA*KAN KAN – Ilana Yagel
Why create?
To shout.
Why keep on creating after the Shoah?
To keep on shouting and preventing another one.
To say: a flower is not a flower,
To say: nails in a block of concrete and some cobblestones around it can also be a flower.
If you dare looking at, imagining and loving this pile of rubbish that is our world, you may find beauty in it.
Since you have imagination, you can believe that a future is still possible in a world full of ancestral hatred.
Like the sword of Damocles above our heads,
Like Ahmedinejad’s words threatening us,
Like a stock ready for the execution,
These X-ray shots expressed death and shouted:
“You’re nothing but flesh and bones!
That’s what you are,
And time has closed the door,
Your time is over”
But in a fit of courage she seems to say:
“NO! I’m not only that!
Even if
‘Ha guf sheli oved alay ba enaym (My body is working on me in the eyes)’
Even if
‘My body is cheating me,’ wants to take the main role in my life,
Wants to shut my voice, put me down and lock me up.
Yes, I’m going to fight.
With my soul, my feelings, my colours and my sorrow,
To create something else than what has been given to me, to keep on transforming the world and its brutal immanence.”
This seems to be an interesting expression to describe the revolt of the artist in front of the X-Ray shots, but in fact it really means: “my body is cheating me.”
