The images associated with this project are derived from a series of oil paintings.

The images include references to a variety of symbols and styles derived from an assortment of cross-cultural traditions.

Each image is based on one letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.

There are at least two forms of a letter in each image,
both print and script.

Five paintings contain four letter forms because each of those letters have a sophit,
a different form for the letter when it appears at the end of a word.

When all the paintings are lined up
they extend about 33 feet, that's about 10 meters.

The paintings took nearly three years to complete,

that is the actual painting on 18" x 20" panels.

The concept was mulling around for years...

. . . eons.

The digital exploration of the images continues..

I was making sketches around the idea of Hebrew letter images at least ten years ago. But the ideas reach further back.

This stage of the project is digital but it is bound to the series of paintings that it is built around. And one of its tangents returns to tactile form in a handmade book. 

The Project includes my relationship with mediums and concepts. 

The concepts and forms of the project revolve around a relationships with Hebrew letters and on to Jewish literature, identity and experience. The project is related to exploring consciousness, art, mediums and non-linear communication systems; language, writing and alphabetic systems, and computers, symbols and cybernetic systems

ein sof (endlessness).

I began the painting series after a year as an artist-in residence in Arad, Israel. In an obscure way my work with this series led me in the direction of working with digital media as an art form/medium. And this has landed me in the CADRE environment of San Jose State University.

One of the letter images was used on the cover of a cassette by composer/musician/songwriter Brian Gelfand. And after an article in the Jewish Bulletin about the series, one of the paintings was used on the cover of the 1999/5760 bay area Resource guide cover.

I was invited to participate in the Feast of Jewish Learning of the Jewish Community Library at the San Francisco Bureau of Jewish Education. The theme of the event was the Hebrew Alphabet. And this virtual presentation is the product of my participation in the event-- The Art of the Alef-Bet : Works inspired by the Hebrew letters, at the Jewish Community Library, San Francisco