{"id":118385,"date":"2024-12-17T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/?p=118385"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:12:56","slug":"by-orit-goldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/by-orit-goldman\/","title":{"rendered":"By Orit Goldman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was little we were taken from school for a tour of the museum. There were 2 counters, one with books and paintings by Van Gogh and Picasso and the other with paintings by Egon Schiele. I had a mystical experience with him, the interpretation of which I received only years later. This series is a tribute to Egon Shiele and me.<br \/>Green Passion<br \/>I met Egon in another century, on an alien continent<br \/>When I was about 7.5, our teacher took us to the art bookstore<br \/>All the kids crowded next to the stand with Picasso and VanGogh books<br \/>I approached another book stand with Egon Schiele wrapped inside<br \/>I was pushed back<br \/>Intense lines, authenticity, wild encounters exploded my inner self<br \/>Since I was a kid I have been searching after boney features in other people<br \/>As a professional artist, I was driven by the idea coming from my intestine<br \/>to make Homage to Egon Schiele<br \/>I decided to let him in<br \/>There were times I managed to bring his entire image &amp; sometimes only the entity.<br \/>Once in a while I was helped by an endless-legs-girl who functioned as a link between us.<br \/>We shared love and ascetic lifestyle<br \/>I taught him how to play &#8220;Pick-up sticks&#8221;. I tried to recollect how to play &#8220;String figure&#8221;<br \/>Step by step I laid down my feet on a red thread, resting on Egon&#8217;s torso, while his<br \/>Hair served me as a safety net<br \/>Passionately waiting for him to blow out the &#8220;love letters&#8221;<br \/>Covered with vale I proposed to him saying: &#8220;one day, you will marry me&#8221;<br \/>We talked, giggled and enjoyed ourselves under the cover<br \/>The blanket absorbed our reflections and kept our secrets<br \/>I embroidered a strip using a red thread to embrace our bare feet<br \/>When it was really freezing, Gustav lent us an additional cover<br \/>When Egon felt pressure in his lungs, I warmed tea bags &amp; let them rest on his chest to sooth the pain<br \/>When he recovered we played &#8220;witch on a stick&#8221;<br \/>We danced an insane green passion dance<br \/>I groped his face again and again, as if I did not know it was him<br \/>Egon is my first love, my first passion<br \/>His image is burned into every single cell of my body and soul<br \/>Orit Goldman \u00a9 all rights reserved<br \/><br \/>Orit Goldman is a mixed media artist from Israel. You can see here work <a href=\"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/orit-goldman\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was little we were taken from school for a tour of the museum&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":118387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-member-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118670,"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118385\/revisions\/118670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circle-arts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}