Ruti Singer

Lives and works in Kfar Yona, Israel

Artist statement

Abstract black ink landscapes seep through the fibers of the delicate, fragile paper on which I paint. The stains permeate the tissue, bleeding through to the other side, taking on a life of their own, delineating dynamic and dramatic storms or alternatively subtle vibrations of nature and the most minute whispers of existence. Juxtaposed over these monochromatic backdrops inspired by Japanese and Chinese traditions are fragments of images, creatures or objects distilled from her collected images, current or born from the physical and emotional landscapes of my childhood. In my main body of works I engage in drawing and painting in ink and mixed technique on paper, in varying sizes, as well as drawing-based video art. Over the years I have created a number of separate series that intertwine, interconnect and separate into separate channels. “Blue Pencil” is a series born in the past year that reacts to “A Place”. Initially, the “place” was a social-based art project in the Arab city of Um El Fahem. This is not merely a geographical place or abstract landscape, it is based on cultural-social-political foundations in the widest sense. Working in blue pencil on white paper encompasses numerous symbolic and political contexts including the use of blue carbon paper to replicate data, atmospheric perspective techniques, blue and white in the Israeli flag and more. The intimate size of the drawings references touristic postcards, raising questions about viewing the Place from an...

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