Finding Home#89 Vashti (Fereshteh)
Siona Benjamin. Finding Home#89 Vashti (Fereshteh), 2006–2006.
Description:
Finding Home # 89 (Fereshteh) “Vashti”
Vashti was cast out
Now she looks in
A black and white setting from yesteryear
Postcards from another target
A chessboard of genocide
The ner tamid of a lost synagogue
A palace of another dictator
Smoke stacks of your ancestor’s crematorium
I search during my journey
But cannot find
How can they erase without a trace
I wonder
Now more than necessary
Along with her dignity
Will she restore yours.
Medium:
Painting
Tags:
transcultural
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
