synesthesia in the arts – Arlene Rabinowitz

Beloning and sense of Home

Sense of belonging

The desire for social bonds and connection with others, is the theme for these art works.

This is the state I am in now. Striving to relate and care for others and to feel a satisfying involvement with a learning community.

In a sense it is a topic related to “Home” another theme I explored in 1995. Home then and now. To which one feels accepted, respected and supported by others in the school of social environment. A place with regular contact, and stability. Without it one feels isolated alienated and loneliness.

The colours are symbolic and represent a new phase. The overlays of the exhibition “home” over new art works represent two mid streams. The one of contentment the other, sadness and isolation.

They are mixed media – pastel and photography overlays.

The stills are part of a video by this name and also expressed my love for the African Bush.

Arlene Rabinowitz 2019

Prints available

Sense of Belonging 01

Sense of Belonging 01_7

A tree is home.

Lost Love

Exodus
Pastel on paper
1995
79cmx69cm

This exhibition reflects the artist’s perception of the concept of Home. The spectator is invited to participate or identify with the visual language that the artist explores in her SEARCH.

For the artist, the process of creating art is always a search, a way of life. Making art has become a process. The art works are the result, the products of the search for alternatives and a response to every day realities – but also an investigation of meaningful, memories of our past, our history, present day culture and the symbolic associations which connect shapes to reasoning.

The drawings can be described as:

Post Modernist in the conventions that she exploits.
Fragmentation
Images on a flat surface
Limited Space
Image and Context
Spirit of place and time
History of structures (Masada) and people
Open ended metaphors
Reference to nature (Growth and renewal)
Nomadic existence
Destruction and deconstruction
The Door – entry into a new life, a new chapter.

The artist more than anybody else, needs to enter, to pass through doors, and barriers in the search for truth, in the knowledge that there is no ultimate truth.

Moving Woman

Pastel on paper

1996

50cmx34

The door
Pastel on paper
1996
67cmx46cm

The Shoe
Pastel on paper
1991
70cmx56cm

Self Portrait Pastel on paper 1991 43cmx54cm

Self Portrait
Pastel on paper
1991
53cmx44cm

Self portrait
1991
Pastel on paper
53cmx45cm

Portrait of woman
Pastel on paper
1991
55cmx45cm

The Chair
Pastel on paper
1996
40cmx30cm

The Fist
Pastel on paper
1991
50cm45cm

Child
Pastel on paper
1991
70cmx56cm

Celebration
Pastel on paper
1991
73cmx56cm

The Foot
Pastel on paper
45cm30cm

Mother and Child
Pastel on paper
1995
70cmx50cm

Memories
Pastel on paper
48cmx38cm
1996
A fragmented account of memories

Mighty Birth
Pastel on paper
1995
48cmx48cm
From a still life construction of a pear and the rest followed.

Food for thought
Pastel on paper
1995
71cmx55cm
From the theme “home” series. The female figure who considers “home” and hearth outside the boundaries of a building with her closest family in spirit. They are all there.