MAY: Pasidungog
Ang Katuyoan sa Inahan, 2020, Bulawan nga dahon, panapton ug paint ashe pintal sa plexi, 20”X 20″
Ang Lamang nga Hinungdan, 2020, Bulawan nga dahon, papel ug marka sa pintal sa plexi,
15″ x 17 "
Ni Dianne Hebbert
Curator’s Note
by Gal Cohen
Maya Ciarrocchi’s art practice speaks strongly to the value of Remembrance. Through personal narrative, research-based storytelling, and embodied mapmaking, Ciarrocchi’s works recreate access to the stories of perished communities and demolished places, thus exploring the physical and emotional manifestation of loss. This still image was captured from an in-process interdisciplinary performance work: Site: Yizkor, commemorating the Jewish communities who perished during the Holocaust. Among the source material included, there are architectural renderings of demolished buildings, memory maps of vanished places and figures, and prose remembrances obtained from historical Yizkor books. This month, when Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed, Maya’s work resonates and invites us to dive into the remembrance of these lost communities.
About the Artist
Dianne Hebbert is a Nicaraguan-American artist and curator. Nagtrabaho siya labi na sa pagpamintal, paghimo og print ug instalar nga arte. Isip usa ka lumad nga Miami ning-eskuyla siya sa New World School of the Arts sa wala pa niya makuha ang iyang BFA sa Pagpintal ug Pagdrowing gikan sa Purchase College ug iyang MFA sa Printmaking gikan sa Brooklyn College. Si Hebbert usa ka nakadawat sa Vermont Studio Center Fellowship ug pagpuyo, napili siya ingon usa ka Smack Mellon Hot Pick Artist sa 2017 ug usa ka Minggawas nga Lider sa New York Arts 2016-2017 Kauban. Nakompleto ni Hebbert ang mga pinuy-anan sa Trestle Art Space, Ang Constance Saltonstall Foundation alang sa Sining ug karon usa ka artista sa Chashama Space to Connect.
Remembrance
Ni Rabbi Ari Perten, Norman E. Alexander Center alang sa Jewish Life Director
The Latin phrase nomen omen suggests that something’s name gives insight into its essence. Such a statement is certainly true for the concept of honor. In hebrew the word honor כבוד (kavod) naggikan sa lintunganayng pulong כ.ב.ד (k.v.d) meaning weighty or heavy. The diametric opposite is the word for curse, Sumpa (klala) nga gikan sa Hebreohanong lintunganayng pulong ק.ל (k.l.) meaning light. An implicit message from this etymology is that to honor someone means to treat them with due and deserved seriousness. While to curse someone is to treat them lightly. Conceptually, such an assertion is not terribly challenging. Intellectually it is easy to espouse the value that every person is deserving of honor, that every person deserves to be taken seriously. Yet our lived experience so often tells a different tale. Often we live in the margins, bisan sa masadya nga pagkapyot sa (ug sa mga oras nga nagpadako pa) atong kaugalingon nga kahinungdanon, o, ang kaatbang nga pagtan-aw sa among mga kaugalingon ingon dili hinungdanon, sagad, and meaningless. In both moments of extremes we would do well to remember that the value of honor insists on our essential substance. As people we are worth honor and such a statement is not uniquely limited to our existence. Observing pleasant sights, nanimaho usa ka madanihon nga baho, nakatilaw sa usa ka lami nga lami tanan, hapit natural, elicit reflexive praise. If the inanimate can be deserving of such honor, how much the more so beings endowed with intelligence and understanding. How do you see honor in yourself and honor in others?
