Path of the New Home
“If you will it, it is no dream.” Inspired by Herzl’s utopian vision in Altneuland, this ten-panel series envisions Tel Aviv not as a terminus but as a garden city by the sea, where “boundaries blur” between ancient myth and contemporary reality—between the promise of rebirth and the still-forming “city of the future.”
In Path of the New Home, I map the interior landscape of aliyah: the tense anticipation of belonging to the renewed land; the fragile balance between hope and turmoil; and the city’s perpetual, almost “organic construction.” Painted on cardboard with acrylic, oil, and charcoal, these works emphasize the materials’ rich textures.
White space serves as both void and potential: an invitation into Herzl’s “open society”—a “city without walls, where each person becomes their own pillar.” Transitions from muted ochres through electric pinks to deep blues follow an emotional spectrum—fear, solidarity, rebirth—while subtle blue splatters drift like rays of light, recalling the harbor of hope by the sea.
This series does not depict a final arrival; it instead charts the ongoing act of becoming, echoing Herzl’s Altneuland—a beacon of progress, tolerance, and human dignity, calling us to believe in the dawn even in the darkest times.
2025, Acrylic and Oil on paper board
Size: 35 x 50 cm x 10
