Lara Kretzmer
Bereishit

Size Framed: 1300 x 980mm
Medium: Giclee print, with 24 karat gold leaf

In this giclee copy of an original mixed media artwork, “Bereishit”, Lara expresses her view of the world, arising from her background as a scientist and her strong spiritual beliefs as a religious Jewish woman. Underneath the artwork, subtly showing through the paint, are copies of original scientific documents, including Einstein’s handwritten E=mc2, and Watson and Crick’s original paper on the structure of DNA. Painted on top in oil paint is her vision of creation, interwoven with images of nature, music, mathematics and astronomy; with Hashem’s hands underneath, bringing everything into being. The first words of the first book of the Torah – Bereishit – are hand-painted on the original and embellished in 24 karat gold leaf in the print. The painting as a whole expresses that everything is created by Hashem, as written in the Torah, and that Mathematics, Science, Genetics and all of nature are an integral part of the structure of the created universe.

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