REVERBERATIONS: Steps Towards Ancestral Healing
Dedication
For my father Eliezer Schwarzberg Artist
Thinker
Survivor
We carry the wounds of our parents and ancestors forward, they are woven into us through the seen and unseen world. There is no separation between us, only a continuation of experiences and learned knowledge of survival. Each generation learns how to be human from the last. We Absorb the joys and sorrows our parents and grandparents carry with them which mold their actions and understanding of life.
Anti-semitism has shaped my family’s human experience for generations and its reverberations have had a great impact on my life as the daughter of a survivor of the Shoah. My father’s understanding of the world was based on his experience of racism that stole his family and his childhood and although he never spoke of what he went through, he did not have to. It lived and shaped his every action and thought. Although he survived, he was never fully free from the suffering. Reverberations is the beginning of a search for healing and understanding.
This exhibition was partially funded by the New York State Council for the Arts
