Samuel Bak

Still Life with Wind

   
Still Life with Wind
  • 2020
  • Crayon and gouache on orange paper
  • 29 × 33 cm(11,4 × 13 inches)

  • Signed and dated lower right: BAK 2020

  • The wind is a force of nature which is beyond our control. Similarly, events of war are beyond our control. Does the shell fall next door or on our home? Am I not at home when the Nazis are rounding up Jews in Vilna? Am I so short that I can stand in the back row during roll call for who will live and who will die?

    A rod attempts to stabilize the objects, especially the bottle that is wrapped in the fabric. Another metal rod is extruded from the goblet as another diagonal stabilizer. It is attached to the one wheeled wagon. It will not ever move.

    Metal abounds. The hollow metal pear is present. All are objects of Bak’s visual vocabulary.

    With simple means he creates another image of questions. How will we survive the winds of change? With the disastrous election in Israel about to condemn this country to a future of domination by the forces of evil and the US preparing to vote. Fear abounds as it should.

    Can art help us both to understand and to act?

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, November 7, 2022

  • Themen:  Werkzeug Birne Flasche

Ausstellungen

Unstill Life by Samuel Bak 2021 Boston, MA

Literatur

Unstill Life: New Works by Samuel Bak Ann Barger Hannum 2021 Boston, MA, p. 62, ill.

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