Sherman Creek Park, 2018
This sculptural installation draws on childhood memories to commemorate my family: Gizelle, my mother, who left Hungary in 1945 to a DP camp in Germany, then migrated to Israel, married my father in Berlin, and moved to India, where I was born. Oskar, my father’s uncle, fought for the Germans in Stalingrad and was a great teller of fairy tales. He is depicted with me as a child of 5 or 6 with a tiger I had made from clay at the time, as I sit with him at his table in Oskar and Trude’s apartment in Berlin.
Supported by grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Creative Engagement Grant and a grant from the Puffin Foundation.
