"near Kafka's grave" acrylic on canvas, 34"x60", 2008
A uniform green ocean of English Ivy and tall, lanky beech trees create an orderly walk, when you are searching for the grave of the great writer, Franz Kafka. His stone is ultimately disappointing for such a well known figure of literature, (except for the dates listing his siblings, who were killed in the Holocaust). The journey through this most Easterly part of Olsanke Cemetery is made eerie by its filtered green light, but still calming for its seemingly perpetual existence throughout such a trying period for Jews in Europe; especially since many of the stone-dates have lives ending in the 1920s and 30s, followed by a long absence in representation, until the dates start to show the latter half of the 20th century.
