SB19 I did hands in black and white holding a red rose as I thought it represented the idea of the Jews in the Holocaust. The black and white hands, represent the sad reality of the Jewish people during the Holocaust but the rose in red, is...
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SB20 “The Hunio Family” This piece is based on a portrait photograph of the Hunio family of Rhodes taken in 1911. While visiting the Sephardi Shul and hearing the stories of the Jews of Rhodes, I was inspired to create a work that focused on family and...
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SB21 This is a drawing based on an image of a concentration camp orchestra. I chose to work from this image as it showed a macabre sense of creativity and culture in a world and time of darkness. The focus of my artwork was on how...
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SB22 SB22 For my practical artwork for the Rhodes submission I recreated a photograph of a Jewish couple getting married under a chuppah, surrounding them, I had put a Magen David covered in bougainvillea. Whilst listening to the stories of so many who were forced out of...
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SB23 a & b While I was walking through the hallways of the Holocaust Museum and taking in my surroundings, my eye caught one particular piece that stood out. It was a photograph that captured a Nazi solider walking through the streets of what I assumed...
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SB24 This piece intended to honour the memory of all the Rhodes Island Jews that died during the Holocaust. I chose to create an artwork that portrays the Jews that lived in Rhodes Island as well as the connection that they had to Judaism during the...
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SB25 The original reference image depicted an elderly Jewish man being harassed by two Nazi soldiers in a ghetto. I decided to crop the rest of the scene out in order to shift the focus solely onto the elderly man, emphasising his gaunt, sunken features and...
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SB28 Struck by an image of a young child in the Holocaust Museum, Mia questioned how we remember and represent victims through the artistic materials we use. In washes of coffee on the one hand, and quink and bleach on the other, Mia explored a fluid...
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