A Black Star
First… education
then work
prayer
property
terminating with a badge of shame
The bleakness of the abyss rests
against the heart.
The Visible Unseen
(Authentic Jewish badge, coat is mine)
A short history of light
Night Falls
When language is forbidden only death can follow.
Untitled Gray Zone 1
Untitled Gray Zone II
Full name: Прудков Морис (Russian), Прудков Моріс (Ukraine), פּרודקאָוו מרדכי (Yiddish,) פרודקוב מוריס (Hebrew), Prudkow Moris (German), Prootkow Morris (English))
Passenger-cargo steamship SS Bulgaria, Hamburg to New York. Nov 16.-27, 1912. My maternal grandfather, one of est. 1110 passengers arrives at Ellis Island, USA.
The Long Reach
Only the Wind Visits and Cares for the Dead
Abandoned Jewish Cemetery. Holesov, Moravia, Czech. 2016
66.784373°N, 28.434903°E, Finnish Lapland. 2020 / 51.402934 °N, 21.143680°E, Radom, Poland. 2019
Radom Ghetto, Poland. The Executioner’s Wall/Salmivaara, Finnish Lapland. Forced Labor in the Gravel Pits. 2020
Along the Path to the “Road to Heaven”
The final 1.1 kilometers to the gas chambers and funeral pyres
Detail from; The final 1.1 kilometers to the gas chambers and funeral pyres
The Fading of History
5-minute walk to the “Road to Heaven”. Once only tracks, now asphalt.EU funded motorway (completed 2013), the DW627 to Treblinka and beyond. 2019
Last look
At the gates to the “Road to heaven”. Treblinka.
Beauty's Final Deception
The final 6.9 kilometers to the gas chambers and funeral pyres. 2019
Tree of Souls
The final 6.7 kilometers to the gas chambers and funeral pyres. 2019
Artifacts
Zaczarowana piosenka. "Enchanted Song".
Artifact or memorabilia?
Siddur (Prayer Book)
Artifact or memorabilia?
Unpleasant Artifact
A flea market find.
Burnt Offerings and Death Masks
Scenes from a nightmare I had (of mass graves, earth and ash). Nekropolia Treblinka. 2019
Harvest Festival
Post human byproduct. Ages 45 through 62. 2020
Her Autumn Dress / Hänen syysmekkonsa
In that garden, a repair station for heavy machinery for the 20th Mountain Army of the German Third Reich. 1941-1944
A topography with secrets Rovaniemi, Finland. 66° 30' 0" N / 25° 43' 0" E.
Repair station for heavy machinery for the 20th Mountain Army of the German Third Reich. 1941-1944. Our autumn and winter garden wonderland. 2017