'Maris' Dorit Feldman 2011
Painting in mixed media, engraving, photograph on brass, 67*134 cm

The mental landscape in Maris etched on brass plate, intertwining with concrete present-day landscape of the Dead Sea, embed a new artistic language as a cross (chiasmus - lace -like texture) between painting and photography. The minimalist black and white map of Israel (done by a Dutch engraver in the 17th century) is assimilated in the photograph. The stressed details of the waters as the Dead Sea written as Lacus asphalt Tites, Maris Mediteranei, and Lacus Tiberiadis mean by analogy, the improvement of consciousness and the attempt of command of reality. The potential change from a Dead Sea to living waters sources. All those foster an utopist narrative of polar interactions, highlighting the possibility of translating reality and influencing its reflection. A map which subjectively eliminates details from the mapped territory and adds a symbolical legend, raises the level of abstraction, rendering the concrete abstract, at times even vice versa.