Fine Arts

Grace Slonim’s work Moving From Zion represents the constant conflict of universal feelings of self-doubt. Like the smoke of a fire twirling around dying embers, so too self-doubt coils around the bones of man. The installation mirrors this image in its skeletal-like structure. It draws the viewer into its spiraling path, surging ever inwards towards the core of Slonim’s work and, representationally, their own self. The flames engulfing the agonized figure in the center of the looming spiral are a reflection of one’s struggling soul. They erupt in bitter anger, rebelling against the constant impossibility of peaceful life. The battlefield of constant conflict is always occupied by a set of ridiculous choices: Secular or religious? My art or my partner? My family or my dreams? It is immature to categorise life into black and white choices, yet when one strips away the bark of life, these are all that remains.