https://www.vardayoran.com/public-spaces daily 1.0 2022-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/d9ad7e6f-5720-48ab-89b1-f4d9a468f6b2/MagdalenaPen3.jpg PUBLIC SPACES TRIBUTE TO MAGDALENA TRUEL (2021) Situated in Yitzhak Rabin Park, Miraflores, Lima Peru. This educated and brave Peruvian young woman living in Paris defied the Nazis during their occupation in her own personal ways. She wrote articles against the occupation for the underground press. She forged documents and ID cards to save lives, largely for Jews trying to escape. She saved infants, toddlers and children, led them to safety and they all survived. She did not. She was captured, tortured and sent to a concentration camp. She died on the death march just hours before they were liberated. I symbolized all she had done. She is sitting confident and defiant on a pile of books, holding her weapon – a huge realistic pen. At the base she is surrounded by children’s footprints in the cement, leading them to safety. Her footprints disappear in the cement. There is no face on the monument because nobody knew her identity until she was discovered in the archives in Paris in 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/5a5fc3d1-12cc-47a3-a3c4-5b435c3d08a0/1.jpeg PUBLIC SPACES AGONY (1991) Accepted by Resistance Fighters Museum in Israel for permanent exhibit. It depicts a person in agony lying on a pile of railroad ties. With his clenched fist, he conveys his resistance in the Holocaust despite his pain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/a93e5bc8-f9e5-4fd3-a03c-2498c64e3418/2.jpeg PUBLIC SPACES FAMILY (2007) Commissioned and standing on permanent exhibit at Rabin Medical Center in Israel, in front of the cancer building. A tall straight shape, a soft curved one leaning towards it, and a little shape connects the two, turning a couple into a family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/b509190c-6b2d-4246-a3ef-44db67069550/3.jpeg PUBLIC SPACES SHOAH AND REVIVAL (2004) Commissioned and standing on permanent exhibit at Tel-Aviv Aviv University campus. This image of a person crossing over a pile of the destruction of a book, tombstone with Hebrew letters, parts of a rooftop, and kitchen countertop and all the destruction, looking back and remembering and posing ahead towards the future. For this sculpture, I received an HONORARY FELLOWSHIP from Tel-Aviv University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/739d6525-814e-4d01-933d-9f621658191d/4.jpeg PUBLIC SPACES TAI CHI (2001) Accepted by Tel-Aviv University for a permanent exhibit on the campus. That is one of the traditional martial arts usually practiced in parks and open spaces, though in groups, each one at their individual pace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/72b79205-95e2-4543-8ef9-32caf8fa4ab7/5.jpeg PUBLIC SPACES VALOR IN FLIGHT (2007) Commissioned and standing at Israel Air Force Center in Herzliah, Israel. It represents the takeoff and flight patterns of the planes in the air force – a bomber carrier, helicopter, a fighter, and a rocket. They are all based on a blue star of David surrounded by a circle of shrubs. It shoots up 15 feet. https://www.vardayoran.com/abstract daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/99b41d6d-7bb5-4acf-896e-50897950d48b/abstract.jpg Abstract ABSTRACT Sculptures need to be seen from all around. The shapes all relate to each other. This sculpture shows two sides, but the shapes connect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/643ca7c0-3962-409d-8bc1-7f4a9438aca9/Eruption.jpg Abstract ERUPTION A flimsy colorful silk fabric erupting out of a solid black block of stone. A contrast in texture, shape, and materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/3147872a-fd01-4ab3-a091-d5cc482b7cb5/MADONA.jpg Abstract MADONNA The warmth of the Madonna’s is in her embrace, though her face is ethereal (in the negative space). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/fb30aad2-5326-4f45-9440-acf460a7eee9/nocturne.jpg Abstract NOCTURNE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT The figure or bird or animal is lying peacefully, sleeping in the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/07fff3c3-587c-4854-be27-f6a2dcc1afe8/origami.jpg Abstract ORIGAMI BIRD A bird ready to take flight. As in the shapes in the Japanese art of paper folding origami, this stone bird also consists of straight lines, flat surfaces, and sharp edges, yet recognizable for what it is Profile of a lady. The transparency of lucite permits the sculpture to be seen from the front and the back at the same time. The eye is carved in the back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/af3b8bae-0c0f-4bb2-ac24-b13c01a574c8/The+Little+Mermaid.jpg Abstract THE LITTLE MERMAID The little mermaid is not quite a person, not quite a fish, and finds it difficult to fit into either society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/d752140e-1e0a-4563-958d-f6352b0e88bb/Continuous+Connection.png Abstract THE CONTINUOUS CONNECTION Commissioned by Tel-Aviv University and 45 copies were given in acknowledgment to big-time donors. The two interconnected knots at the bottom are the university with the third knot with extended arms is the student excitedly facing the future. There is no visible beginning or end to the interconnected knots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/8cf6e32e-7ab2-4592-993e-7ab51dd9cd2d/Self+Destruction.jpg Abstract SELF-DESTRUCTION In an abstract way I was saying that as people grow from infancy gradually, predictably, at some point some people turn into themselves and bit by bit, stage by stage, they destroy their lives with their habits, behavior, values, and decisions, drugs, alcohol, vice, abuse their careers, and their families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/cdc3f998-5c78-41b8-8fde-218356f587c3/optimism.jpg Abstract OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST Just by looking at the abstract shapes of the lucite, it’s easy to understand which symbolizes optimism and which shows pessimism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/442e4e7b-46b9-4f95-b1d4-77419cd2cec5/woman.jpg Abstract WOMAN A woman is supposed to be strong, sensitive, beautiful, colorful, and unpredictable. The colors are what the lava spouted out, that no artist could copy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/39726527-c582-4aa6-a51f-84b6eaa532b2/IdenticalCells.jpg Abstract IDENTICAL CELLS In a Petri dish, for the first four days the live cells of a fish, a baby, a chicken, and a piglet are identical and undecipherable. On the fifth day, they begin to grow into what they are going to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/ad0192fe-e18e-4c53-9464-0e8a0233b736/Lotus.jpg Abstract LOTUS This flower is the symbol of purity in Chinese culture. It grows from a seed in a murky pond into a beautiful delicate flower floating on a leaf on the surface of the pond. This one is made of sheets of transparent lucite. The stem is severed, and the flower is lying on its side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/49a69ce0-54b3-4c36-a0ae-a6c5355f4225/SeatedFigure.jpg Abstract SEATED FIGURE A one-line sketch in bronze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/b6530406-40ff-4d1b-8b60-e7688119084b/Zen.jpg Abstract ZEN Zen is the inner glow, the soul. The stone, a Persian onyx, glows warmly from within when a light is shone directly over it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/a95bc5c5-6b06-4ea6-9768-2d8e8a19cc23/YingYang.jpg Abstract YING YANG In Chinese culture, Yin Yang symbolizes the opposites which consist in the universe. The image of negative and positive, good, and bad, big, and small, black and white, curved shapes within a circle is translated further in the sculpture into flowing in and flowing out, smooth, and textured surfaces, back and front, rigid and curved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/1c411506-3ccc-4aa0-8857-1da55bd9a859/Harmony.jpg Abstract HARMONY This sculpture was in an international exhibit in Finland. Our American group’s theme was Harmony. I called it seeing with our hearts, which in my opinion brings about harmony in relationships. The smooth flowing lines of the eyes, with shiny black pupils in one continuous line into merge into an open heart. There is no beginning or end to this combined continuous flow from eyes to heart. This shape and this concept could be created as a large outdoor sculpture or as a tiny pendant with green or blue eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/9154eea6-e0f4-4e83-a404-d2617df9dfe2/portraitofalady_profile.png Abstract PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Lucite) https://www.vardayoran.com/commissions daily 0.75 2022-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/c5ca5528-cec0-491e-b3c7-542818d57d4d/MagdalenaPen.jpg Commissions We need a caption for this image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/a5811298-f998-413c-96aa-d0469d942011/MagdalenaPen3.jpg Commissions We need a caption for this image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/df7c1534-8678-4dd1-933d-7c3b3679c45b/Continuous+Connection.jpg Commissions The Continuous Connection | Bronze 9” x 7 1/2” x 3” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/65f4469e-f2da-4fa6-a4e3-87b1d8c474f2/Connections+army.jpg Commissions The Continuous Connection | Bronze 9” x 7 1/2” x 3” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/56d3fc4f-e6a3-456d-90b8-a75afe097c31/2.jpeg Commissions Family | Granite 10’ x 5’ x 2’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/78336897-5902-4343-9681-b4e525eed48b/Jews+who+fought+the+Nazis.jpg Commissions Jews who fought the Nazis | Bronze 27” x 16” x 16” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/03c70beb-9a40-4d38-b300-03982c23d127/1.jpeg Commissions Agony | Bronze 6’ x 4 1/2’ x 3’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/db51afc3-4ed4-4ce9-9419-6d3e679fd88d/3.jpeg Commissions Shoah and Revival | Bronze 6’ x 3’ x 4’ and smashed stones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/43ce969d-399c-4bc1-a97d-3b6a76bd4912/4.jpeg Commissions Tai Chi | Granite 11’ x ‘5 x 3 1/2’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/f4e04402-7970-4c64-8d62-7bcf283e0a36/5.jpeg Commissions We need a caption for this image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/f4caea9e-717a-41df-acf2-8e6e1e7cd36a/HARMONY_feather.jpg Commissions Harmony | Bronze - 5.5” x 4.5” x 1.5” https://www.vardayoran.com/bio daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/eb399519-89f5-4b1d-b74d-1cb59689ba3f/Varda_s.png Bio - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vardayoran.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-04-13 https://www.vardayoran.com/emotions daily 0.75 2022-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/525ff9ba-005f-4cff-9d7f-43a6fa522f93/Breaking+Up+1.jpg Emotions BREAKING UP The beautiful stone is the start of a beautiful relationship. There are multiple layers in the relationship. Then cracks appear, then slashes and breakages, and finally the parting. Each one goes in a different direction. It’s a sad, bewildering, and unhappy experience. The only thing I did was carved the eyes. The rest is in the stone. I stood it upright to show both sides of the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/6ba9f549-286a-4f02-a243-b6b02fe78a44/DEPLETED.jpg Emotions DEPLETED Sculptures don’t need to be realistic in order to convey emotions. Depleted is devoid of detail and captures the mood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/26322ae9-5f1b-4c9a-8206-2ccb471b73d2/LoosingMyself.jpg Emotions LOOSING MYSELF IN BITS AND PIECES Over the years I begin to lose my vision, my hearing, my mobility, parts of myself to surgery. Eventually I lose myself entirely. I’m gone, but life continues. I expressed this by having all my features in the negative part of the face. The background is transparent tinted Plexiglas to show the life around it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/0fd38fd8-4f96-48b5-a774-18a92b5f3765/pensive.jpg Emotions PENSIVE This figure can either sit on a base or on the edge of a table, desk, windowsill, or anywhere else. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/e305a018-8438-42c8-aa16-c853ef0579ba/DANIELLE.jpg Emotions DANIELLE This girl is alone, sad, and vulnerable. Wrapped in a shawl, naked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/5d2eaabe-a070-42c1-a3d0-1ffb755698ca/Grief.jpg Emotions GRIEF Here is a couple in grief so deep that they can’t give or even accept support. Their heads are turned away from each other. Their arms though touching are hanging limp or slack. Their bodies are barely touching. What I had in mind are people surviving the loss of a loved one, a couple in mourning. Could be a powerful reminder at a cemetery or museum to the Holocaust or victims of terrorism. Indoors or in public outdoor spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/fcf4eabe-9297-4567-8607-9c636292ed1f/plea.jpg Emotions PLEA Seen from the back, this person is communicating with God. The front is highly polished and reveals the beauty of the tiger eye stone. The back, unseen here, is left crude and untouched, the imperfection of man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/02bc4617-a5b9-4bad-abae-8047333488b6/Swasticide.jpg Emotions SWASTICIDE The spear-shaped like the Star of David stabbing into the broken swastika trying to crawl away from the strong armies of the countries that united to resist the evil regime in World War II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/37758c97-4f76-4cb2-84a9-0d501f106198/PainfullyShy.jpg Emotions PAINFULLY SHY The figure is turned into herself. Shoulders crunched, one of my friends called it the last submissive woman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/d8e2fd82-1483-4c23-bb7c-861d8cd4ebf0/spent.jpg Emotions SPENT Totally exhausted and in despair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/86281b82-6987-42ea-a491-1529b76188cc/Too+Threatening+to+Deal+With.jpg Emotions TOO THREATENING TO DEAL WITH They didn’t speak up during the Holocaust They don’t speak up when they are abused, they don’t speak up when they see injustice. It’s too threatening to deal with. It’s safer to hide in their personal nooks Not to see, not to hear, not to speak up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/1cc7f7d0-413e-4bbb-8285-e720cc76bd64/Spirit+of+Israel.jpg Emotions SPIRIT OF ISRAEL This sculpture shows how difficult it is to help a totally exhausted and helpless person. I was inspired by stories of the Israelis bringing smuggling in survivors of the Holocaust illegally through the British blockade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/d1715f3f-a8c6-4a62-ad18-2f283226b21c/Agony.jpg Emotions AGONY Lying in agony on a pile of railroad ties (symbolizing the Holocaust) this survivor with a clenched fist is still strong and resilient. The sculpture is on permanent exhibit at the Ghetto Fighters Museum in Israel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/5794f93f-a641-4965-814b-42c78b21208d/IRememberChina.jpg Emotions REMEMBER CHINA A non-Chinese person with a Chinese background represented by the bamboos which are carved in the back. The bamboos are a memory, a reminder, not tangible. It’s placed on a scroll. That could only be expressed on clear lucite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/01eed2e1-1829-4fad-b820-16d027bfd078/struggle.png Emotions STRUGGLE Four hands, pushing, pressing, tugging, pulling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/46118559-62b3-4f43-a77c-d0e7afb5c7b5/Exit.jpg Emotions EXIT Whatever one exits – a country, a job, a relationship, or life, one takes it along – memories, experiences, successes, and failures, hopes and dreams. The accumulation is heavy. The load which is part of the body is tied with a rope. https://www.vardayoran.com/mid-motion daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/bb7072c9-82cf-4b0f-92c5-33945b2fe700/karate_untitled-7557.jpg Mid Motion Karate Black Belt | Plexiglas 11.5”x 9” x 6.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/d2acf1c9-fc39-4091-b14f-5ce91b681bc7/Lola_untitled-7560.jpg Mid Motion Lola | Plexiglas 15”x 9” x 6” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/5e67c921-32ca-4197-a964-5b00ac1ae17e/MArathon_untitled-7572.jpg Mid Motion Marathon | Plexiglas 13”x 18” x 8” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/73c853ad-78b7-484b-8aa4-e6a1b477e235/Orange_breakdanceDSC_2860.jpg Mid Motion Breakdance | Plexiglas 8”x 11” x 5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/27503e7b-25d4-48bd-98ac-1276d37e6903/Orange_breakdnce2_DSC_2858.jpg Mid Motion Breakdancing | Plexiglas 8”x 11” x 5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/8e3c9c33-c988-40ed-8467-714347de928b/Orange_Capoeira_DSC_2884.jpg Mid Motion Capoeira | Plexiglas 12.5”x 9” x 6” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/786f61fd-3b29-4390-aa6b-976d92ef99bf/Orange_Capoeira2_DSC_2882.jpg Mid Motion Capoeira 2 | Plexiglas 12”x 7” x 6” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/b7ca367f-d53a-4861-b174-c8bdb71cd892/Orange_fencing_DSC_2863.jpg Mid Motion Fencing | Plexiglas 8.5”x 22” x 10” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/7eeb51a9-ac40-47d0-901d-98ec8d9498bb/Orange_pilates_DSC_2868.jpg Mid Motion Pilates | Plexiglas 8.5”x 10” x 7.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/667b8cfb-5ae8-4e79-9d26-4b784dc91dc2/Orange_Soccer_DSC_2871.jpg Mid Motion Soccer | Plexiglas 11”x 9” x 7.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/d0400346-ee8f-4f23-8436-14564362825d/Orange_taiChiDSC_2850.jpg Mid Motion Tai Chi | Plexiglas 7.5”x 10” x 6.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/bb1d4b56-bc3a-48f7-bb61-b432d67bb12f/Yoga_untitled-7576.jpg Mid Motion Yoga | Plexiglas 6”x 9” x 6.25” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/9487a6a9-9e8a-4584-80e2-910bb6f99c32/PassdeDeux1_untitled-7565.jpg Mid Motion Pas De Deux 1 | Plexiglas 15”x 11” x 11” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/83c1b8de-f475-4d39-8b12-adaeca212ae0/Pass3_untitled-7564.jpg Mid Motion Pas De Deux 2 | Plexiglas 15”x 12” x 10” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/85c9e423-9e88-4cf3-aab4-6926a97c8eb5/Passde+Deux_untitled-7571.jpg Mid Motion Pas De Deux 3 | Plexiglas 15”x 20” x 8” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/0e513038-8865-49fc-be4e-d60eca7654dd/Violinist.jpg Mid Motion Violinist | Plexiglas 11.5”x 9” x 6.5” https://www.vardayoran.com/movement daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/20c2420b-910b-41d8-bae7-a23b28668333/animals.jpg Movement Animals | Wood ANIMALS Climbing up and climbing down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/cc4b73aa-81d5-4eac-babc-4262eabe470f/ballerina.jpg Movement BALLERINA A study in flexibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/2b80d1ab-0795-4556-857f-843b1aece319/giraffe.jpg Movement GIRAFFES Reaching for sustenance, one down towards water, the other towards leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/b1d04dcb-b993-44e5-9886-b0507c3e7e77/PassDeux_untitled-8471-2.jpg Movement INTERDEPENDENCE In the intricacies of dance, balance and other moves the dancers often rely upon each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/e1c6a2c7-0ee1-425e-b07a-feaa21d6cf03/pilates.jpg Movement PILATES Climbing down a ball is one of the complicated moves in this form of exercise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/53d9f794-a5e1-4db2-8326-28acc9095887/TaiChi.jpg Movement TAI CHI The white version of Tai Chi clearly shows the delicacy, grace, and shadows of the movement of this traditional Chinese exercise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/ce9f90ba-e137-4b8b-8cea-13e86f5ac30b/KINGDAVID.jpg Movement KING DAVID AND HIS HARP King David and his harp were one. He didn’t even need his crown when he was playing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/371e1179-a3e2-4dbf-ad47-523f11a6a196/solo.jpg Movement SOLO The grain in the wood follows the shapes of the abstract dancer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/0209d091-6c0a-4510-a6f5-673b68e4d09f/streetUrchin.jpg Movement STREET URCHIN A little beggar boy, a street urchin in bare feet, his scruffy pants tied with a string, doing incredible acrobatic stunts, was something I commonly saw in the streets in China when I lived there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/ae05f7ba-0cf5-40de-92bf-242d0acbf0e6/Isadora.jpg Movement ISADORA Inspired by Isadora Duncan’s dance. Watching a dancer, one doesn’t see the figure all the time, one sees the movement. Here I portrayed the face, the toe, and all the motion around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/056f96d6-e5d5-45f9-a5d6-84deffc43c34/Shall_We_Dance_bonded_bronze.jpg Movement SHALL WE DANCE The flowing and soft figure dancing with the partner with sharp edges and straight shapes shows who is the man and who is the woman. https://www.vardayoran.com/relationships daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/b4ab79c8-7e9b-4683-aca7-0de28a88c0a6/Puppy+Love.jpg Relationships PUPPY LOVE Sensitive, warm friendship between two puppies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/200a77b6-86e1-4d02-b313-8a4b33d7929f/TheLivesHeTouched.jpg Relationships THE LIVES HE TOUCHED The blocks in this represent the people whose lives my husband Shalom touched – some closely, some peripherally, some to a larger extent, some less, some recently, some long ago. The arms extended all around at the back embraces them all. There are 18 little blocks, the number symbolizes life in the Jewish religion. The arms extended in the back embrace them all. This sculpture is on his tomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/43de0d1f-4421-477e-a100-15bcef61074f/Family.jpg Relationships MAQUETTE FOR FAMILY The more I polished this stone, the more the colors came up. Suddenly I saw the shape of a heart in just the right spot on the tall piece. One of the abstract shapes is a strong person, the curved one is gentler, leaning towards it. The little shape below is the child that turned the couple into a family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/cc47445e-86ab-4f3d-b97d-04c6081f0918/Secrets.jpg Relationships SECRETS The boy is telling a secret to the girl, who is very shy. There is no detail in the sculpture. A sleeve and skirt show that she’s dressed. The boy has a pocket on his pants, and he’s dressed. There are no faces, but the feeling is there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/c5ca5528-cec0-491e-b3c7-542818d57d4d/MagdalenaPen.jpg Relationships MAGDALENA TRUEL In the original maquette I made her sit on the pile of books holding a rifle that has a pen at the end instead of bullets. I was asked not to use a rifle. I modified the weapon into a huge very realistic black pen with a silver nib. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/f122cbdf-44ca-40fa-8f77-ddd82610c5a1/THE_KISS.jpg Relationships THE KISS Passionate and turbulent, immersed in each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/78336897-5902-4343-9681-b4e525eed48b/Jews+who+fought+the+Nazis.jpg Relationships JEWS WHO FOUGHT THE NAZIS This little sculpture was presented to couples who both survived the Holocaust as partisans fighting the Nazis in WWII. It shows the Star of David spear stabbing the distorted broken swastika trying to crawl away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/d23d48a0-6c3a-4a05-8888-174fa76624d9/caress.jpg Relationships CARESS Intimate and gentle, intertwined. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/cd50e521-0ef2-4ac5-9599-ac503498f38e/Siblings.jpg Relationships SIBLINGS Brother and sister sharing time together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/879fe6d6-ff06-45a6-893f-ef6379540d18/GeminiSnakes.jpg Relationships GEMINI SNAKES My twin sister and I were born on June 6, 1929, in China. Gemini in our horoscope, the year of the snakes in China. We were not identical, in appearance, personality, and skills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/60f2d570-5dd4-45f3-8c97-6cfecd1b635e/Untitled.jpg Relationships CHATTING A casual conversation between two friends. https://www.vardayoran.com/exhibitions daily 0.75 2022-05-01 https://www.vardayoran.com/various daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/f7b1ec01-1cff-4986-8713-dcf02fd2eeaa/Budha.JPG Various BUDDHA -My First Sculpture (clay) This smiling Buddha of happiness is the first sculpture I made, in 1952 as a wedding gift to my twin sister. She had it throughout her life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/4b44275b-b4ea-48c8-a229-4dc3162db5f6/Mia.jpg Various MIA My toy poodle, with floppy ears and shiny bright eyes. Origami sheet of lead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6256e877b7ea0a3777cb8a13/15d00517-6ffb-4a37-bad2-0f1f17ced7f5/monkey.png Various MONKEY I noticed him in the zoo sitting almost like a person.