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From the Series Citroen Park
Deganit Berest
2004
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Deganit Berest is one of Israel’s most prominent multidisciplinary artists. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Visual Arts (2005) and the Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture (2007). She lives in Tel Aviv.
Early in the morning the sun took a walk in the woods
with me and my father
my right hand in his left.
A knife flashed between the trees like lightning.
And I’m so scared of the fear in my eyes…
When Claude Cahun took this self-portrait photograph, she was still Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob and had not yet adopted her new gender-neutral name. She is wearing a pinafore, sitting quietly at a desk…
Once there was a stroke of misfortune.
The day it happened, Mother couldn’t stop cursing this wretched life. Something occurred that almost caused Father to hang himself out of pure shame. After that…