Shabbat Art -  Lines that Cross Lines

"These watercolors seem so simple,  so precious,  so delicate.  Yet it is the most radical work of all my art.  Radical? One is not supposed to work on Shabbat  ( the Sabbath) or holidays,  and yet I sit month after month,  year after year in my progressive reform Jewish congregation, Temple Emanuel of Baltimore, searching for the Divine,  sketching the immediacy and beauty of The Sacred during services.  Over the millennia, many have believed that the second commandment forbids art of any kind in a Jewish sanctuary.  Yet, I have works on walls that bring neshamah ( soul/essence) to many Jewish institutions throughout  the USA.  When I pray, I talk to God,  but when I make art, God talks to me.  I much rather God talk to me!"  

Mr. Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen employs a simple set up so he can sketch anywhere using pen and ink, watercolors, acrylic pens, and sheets of archival watercolor paper. Unless otherwise stated, the size of the selected watercolors shown below are either 11 inches x 7.5 inches, or 15 inches  x  5.5 inches. 

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