It’s about time, but slowly, over the next months, I hope to fill the new “Family Forest” section of my natalieshell.com with some of the pieces I have made or am making… Nothing is ‘perfect’ but it is important for me to begin to share them so I can begin to put this project ‘out [...]
(I recommend listening to this as you read) Over the last few weeks, whenever I started working on my family story project, I find myself taken back to a yiddish song my grandmother, Chana, used to sing with us…and all my grandparent’s knew: “Oifn Pripetshik” (also: oifen pripitchik, oyfn pripitchik). If you pressed on the [...]
Earlier this year, (think September) while reading Landscape and Memory, by Simon Schama, I read a single sentence about “der holzweg”, the forest way, that led me down a strange dark path of My Family Forest*… Image: The walk to paradise garden (c) W Eugene Smith The sentence was in the chapter of Schama’s chunky [...]
I’m back from Poland…back to normality, day-day…and that’s lovely (always nice when friends and colleagues say they missed you ;)) but I must admit I’m still digesting… While I let my thoughts simmer I wanted to share these two photos – I took them while we sped through Poland and I think they’re special: Poland [...]
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