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Yosef's Bones
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These paintings are from a series entitled Yosef’s Bones. They were inspired by three Biblical passages which tell the story of how the bones of Yosef (Joseph) traveled from Egypt, where he died, to the Holy Land, where they are finally interred. At the end of the Book of Genesis, a dying Joseph has his brothers promise to take his bones with them when they leave Egypt. The passage that particularly moves me is in Exodus. We read that Moses remembers and honors the promise made to Joseph generations earlier. What intrigues me here is the love, caring for and commitment involved in honoring a promise over generations. I ask myself what it means, metaphorically, to carry the bones of one's ancestors from the past, through the present and into the future. While in the midst of working on these paintings, I experienced the feeling of consciously choosing to carry the bones—hoisting the collective memory of my ethnic background onto my shoulders—feeling its bone-heavy weight. |
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Bamidbar © Jane Sherrill 1999 Acrylic on paper 30" X 22.25"
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