Land scape
Mally Elbaz Almandine
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Nature and urban environment are particularly recurrent in your imagery and it never plays the role of a mere background. Do you see a definite relationship between nature and your work?
Nature is indeed an integral part of who I am. I grew up in a house adjacent to fields, my childhood games were in fields of wheat and corn. As a child, I was a shepherd of sheep, a repetitive image in my works. In the wonderful silence surrounding the green meadows, in the shadow of the giant eucalyptus, there was a girl and her sheep, creating a different world: The twigs that had fallen of the trees became her doll, the dry leaves on the ground became her blanket and the ground was first infrastructure of the first painting. While using my fingers and the twigs to draw on the ground, for hours and hours. I heard the sounds of nature, the silence, the whispers of the distance, and they all have become a magnet and inspiration to my compositions today.
In the painting " Go Away " there is a tree with purple flowers. This is the tree that we used to have in our garden of the house I grew up in. On that tree, there was a rope that