Holocaust #6From the Artist As an artist engaged with painfully difficult topics, my journey began in childhood with the daily reality of The Holocaust in my immigrant community. Art gave me a positive way to give form and expression to the rage, grief and horror within and around me. This portfolio of ten prints, created at Brandywine, constitute but a small part of my thirteen years of work on The Holocaust. Working at Brandywine, especially with Allan Edmunds,

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he enlarged the photograph in his sunlit bedroom and watched the light fall across her face

The bird in the center of the print symbolizes the bluebird of happiness

and mastery over the sea

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I also use natural materials such as raw wood

It has been in use for more than 500 years

I use a variety of materials and media to build narratives or depict the complexity of situations not easily resolved

31 x 46 inches

the painting process

The reason it's called Ibis is that I was lucky to be connected with some computer graphic people in the early 80s who had an imaging computer that they called “Ibis

Smith was there