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Dec. 30th, 2005 @ 10:27 pm Subjectless
I'm working on a series of pieces revolving around the word "hineini" (here I am), using Hebrew and English, mostly from the Bible. I would be ETERNALLY grateful if someone would help me out by translating this poem I wrote into Hebrew - I know a little modern Hebrew, but my written Hebrew sucks. If there's anything I can help someone out with in return, I'd be more than happy to do so. Thanks again!!

I have seen the look in my grandmother’s eyes
when she talks about her parents
the children she fought for,
those whose tangible absence
has resided in me since before my birth.
Like Adam I have known
that I must eventually fall
under the weight of that knowledge.
Here I am.
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Apr. 27th, 2005 @ 10:42 pm Subjectless
Bitter, bitter girl. Copy of a letter emailed to the senior class re: my food.
Its such a very bad idea to piss of a PMSing jew during passover.


Some silly person made the grave mistake of coming between a hungry Jewish kid during passover and her passover-friendly food, by removing it from senior kitchen's fridge. My team of private investigators will be in in the next few days to dust for fingerprints - But seriously. PLEASE don't take food that doesn't belong to you, especially because you never know when it belongs to some bitter, temporarily unstable from carb deprivation, HUNGRY individual who will hunt you down. And dammit, if I find out who took my food, you'd better sleep with one eye open.

B'Shalom,
Bekka
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Mar. 30th, 2005 @ 11:00 pm Subjectless
Current Mood: stressed
So I think I might have an individual show next week in the Olin gallery, which would be cool but completely crazy to get ready for... The last yearbook deadline is FINALLY being sent out tomorrow, thank god - after this, I just have to figure out who to tap for editor-in-chief next year and its officially no longer my problem. Amen. Things are very complicated with a certain someone right now... actually things themselves aren't all that complicated at all, but people around me are making the complication factor skyrocket, as evidenced by the fact that I have to refer to him as a certain someone even in a journal that I don't think anyone who knows me even reads. Slight paranoia.

Revisit day for SMFA on the 10th... *sigh* I want to go there so badly, we just have to figure out financial stuff. And I'm a little stressed about the whole idea, college in general and art school specifically, not that I don't spend ALL MY TIME doing art here anyway... I'm just not as confident with that as I'd like to be. I'm also feeling girly and insecure about my appearance, which I hate because I'm so very much not that type of girl, at ALL... so yeah.

I made a bracelet today with coins and pieces of bills from a bunch of different countries - shekels, dollars, and pesos this time because thats all that was easily available, but hopefully more next time, I'm enjoying it. I'm having (artist's block?) with my computer graphics stuff right now though, which is frustrating... I don't usually suffer from lack of inspiration, I just can't make anything that feels right right now. Streessssssss.

Thats enough stress venting for one day.
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Mar. 23rd, 2005 @ 03:11 pm Subjectless
You scored as One Intelectual Individual. You're a thinker. You see things from a very different prospective than the rest of the world, and probably find release and self-expression in music, painting, scalpting, or any other form of art. People see you as a deep person, full of knowledge that they don't understand. People are attracted to that, but there's a good chance you don't care.

One Intelectual Individual

88%

Earth-Child

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Mar. 21st, 2005 @ 04:29 pm Subjectless
I GOT INTO SMFA!!! Thank god :) I just got back last night (well, 2:30 this morning) from puerto vallarta, mexico... It was incredible, SO beautiful. I got so inspired by the whole trip... I got shells for jewelry pieces, and I designed a few pieces with coins and money, and a silver box with "inquisitive" under glass... took pictures for a few computer graphics pieces I want to do... I wrote a few poems about the girl I went with... a good friend of mine but my total opposite in every way, filthy rich, spoiled beyond belief, a sweetheart in some ways but with a social conscience the size of a peanut...

( Here's one )

Anyway. All exciting. I'm psyched for college!!! I'll post the other poems and the pictures and such when I'm done with them :)
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Mar. 5th, 2005 @ 11:46 am Another political commentary jewelry piece.
In the same vein as an earlier posting, here is an image of a piece I made using text from an article about child abuse. Any critiques greatly appreciated. The two earlier ones in the same series are behind the cut. Images of more of my jewelry and computer graphics pieces can be found at http://photobucket.com/albums/v283/Bekkarr/



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Mar. 2nd, 2005 @ 07:53 pm Subjectless
Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: Yellowcard, my only one
I made another of the glass pieces today... this one has visible text that says "her mother... one of her daughters that... ished her dead, a police..." with the phrase "rock a bye" in silver wire above it, two amethyst stones, a large square and a smaller one on the top and side, and a silver chain sort of hammock beneath it... I can't get pictures right now, I'm in the dorm...

I let my mom see one of my poems today, which was weird... she gets excited about me writing again but a lot of my stuff is really personal and its hard for me to share with her.

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I've got a meeting with the spawn of Satan, aka our head of diversity, tomorrow... She's so incredibly unhelpful and unpleasant... I've been doing massive amounts of work to set up and prepare for my grandmother's presentation about her experiences in the Holocaust (she grew up w/ Anne Frank and her parents were taken away when she was 17, she spent the rest of the war smuggling children across borders and such heroic things.) And all this evil woman can do is make things harder... anyway. Frustrating.

I find out from SMFA over spring break, about march 13th... I'll be in Mexico w/ Chelsea (more about that later) so my parents will open the letter and read it to me I guess. It means SO MUCH to me, I want to go there so badly... and its hard because I have no way to gauge my chances. I know my work is good, but I dont know if its up to their standards or if its what they're looking for... its very untraditional, most people have at least one painting or something in their portfolio and I don't... I mean my grades and test scores always made me feel so much better about applying to other schools, but here I don't even know that those are going to be all that much help. I just don't like feeling like its out of my hands... I want it so badly.

So I leave for Mexico w/ Chelsea on the 10th... She still hasnt given me details about a lot of stuff, I'm kind of scared... and I should go shopping at some point. Its going to be fun, I think? We'll see.

Enough for now.
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Mar. 1st, 2005 @ 08:46 pm Made today
Today I was playing around with glass and text and made these two... I've got several more glass/text blocks ready to work with... one that says "unorthodox," one that says "disappear... Its not permanent," one that says "suicide bomber...killed..." and one about child abuse. Please let me know what you think. The pictures are really crummy and for that I apologize. The first is a pendant on a heavy silver neckwire with a spiral catch at the end, and the second is a pin. Thanks for any feedback/critique!

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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 07:24 pm Subjectless
A few computer graphics pieces I've done in Photoshop... part of a series of images made of pictures I took at Auschwitz and historical images. A portfolio of 8 of these pieces won regional awards in the Scholastic Art Awards, and are going on to nationals currently.


Entitled "The Long Road," the base image is of the road in the camp between the train station and the gas chambers, and so the only point of the camp that hundreds of thousands of people ever saw - in particular, almost every single child who ever entered the camp. The closed eyes are meant to symbolize either the rest of the world or the childrens' mothers.






Self portrait
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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 09:44 am Subjectless
My holocaust jewelry piece and writing with it - won a gold key in the regional Scholastic Art Awards, is going on to the Nationals. Comments? criticisms?
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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 09:29 am Mmmm poetry
Some poetry I was playing with... its been years since I wrote anything like this. I could really use some critiques... The first is sort of dual - partly about someone in my life, partly about the way another person in my life described me. The second and fourth are about Jerusalem, and the third is about religion in general.
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Feb. 27th, 2005 @ 11:15 pm Subjectless
Fresh journal, fresh start... mostly focused on (assorted) art forms.
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