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Rivka Sassover Peled
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About my art
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Outdoor Painting
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Being in the unique moment, there are no ideas that are invented, nor ones that I first express. No new “subjects”, no special technique, unknown before. But yes, I want to demonstrate what I see, how I see it.
My art and my life are the same thing. I find my themes of interest in the visual meetings that are created in them.
I paint the light upon the opposite wall, the glitter of a parking car, the shadow of a bicycle that passed in the street...
In the last decade I have studied Buddhism and Meditation. To observe what is existing now. To listen to the silence. Very similar to the place which I understand my art. Painting the powerful silence.
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Night Light
“What do you see at night?” I am being asked, when I go to the street with my drawing stand, as dark is descending.
The familiar reality of the day time – is as strange as new, If the experience of drawing for me, is the wish to look for an expression for the uniqueness of the sights, then observing at night, sharpens/focuses this search.
Those objects, having their names in the daylight, loose their names and their identities, merge into the shadows, change into unfamiliar creatures. The form softens into chunks, the contours vanish.
It is the consensus of the world of drawing, that the action of drawing should be done in the daytime. Only then, one can see the infinity of nuances of reality; Only then, one can notice all the nuances which have been placed on the canvas. At night, the familiar colors of nature are gone. Even in moonlit nights - the world is colored with nuances, which have no name in the painter’s palette.
Sometimes I photograph and later I work on it in the studio, and sometimes I work outside, looking for the groping, the wandering in the darkness. I love the uncertainty, the inability to control. I am more focused in what I see, than in what I’m doing.
Portraits
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Portrait drawing always interests me, it is an issue which is renewed with every face I draw. While observing a person of whose portrait I draw, there is created a process of a dialogue. Observing the other person through his facial features, through his body language and his palms, is an intimate look into his soul.
Childhood
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Children in different scenes of their world, occasionally “appear” in my drawings. I say “appear”, although it is not accidentally, that they interest me as themes for my art. I have worked with them and have observed them throughout the years of my work. I find in their being all of our hidden existences as adults.
The movements of children are naïve and unrefined, lacking fear and consciousness lacking, up to self-forgetfulness.
In the back of the naivete, the joy and the unfathomable seriousness in which children are playing – loneliness is exposed, as well as vulnerability, and the absence of consciousness.
Summer Camp In Gaza
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The series “Summer-day camp for the Hamas children”, was painted following filming of Nir Kafri in Gaza. I bring the whole composition that the artist-photographer chose, in its completeness, and describe it in my language. Nir deals finds the image in the reality, capturing a humane situation with a psychological meaning, as well as social and political meanings.
The children participate in the scene, which is both coincidental and meaningful at the same time. When I work with the photo, the work of drawing enables me to become close to them, individualizes them and arouses personal life in each of them.
The colorfulness which makes the painting extreme, sharpens the gap between the seemingly joyful scene and what we know.