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