חוטים שנפרמו מסדינים ישנים מונחים בין שכבות צבע. כשהצבע יבש החוטים מוסרים ומשאירים סימנים בחומר. מעין 'דיאלוג' בין קנווס (כל מה שהוא מסמל) והחוטים עם כל הדברים שהם מעלים

The question was about the use of threads. The answer was: 'threads which were pulled from old bed-sheets had been placed between layers of paint. When the paint dries the threads are pulled off the canvas, leaving traces in the material. It is a kind of 'dialogue' between canvas (and all that it symbolizes) and the threads, with all the associations that they provoke.'

From: FB exchange 4.7.2016

A bullet-proof vest or Tzitzit?, Oil on canvas, 2016

'Suddenly, standing there at the door, was a fair-haired soldier with a bag on his shoulder; one of those wandering British soldiers who were passing through more often these days, on the way from Jisr al-Majami camp to Haifa ...
"I've got something worth selling here" ...
"What is it?" ...
"This is a real protective jacket," the soldier said. "A bullet-proof vest, lightweight. It's got small plates inside reinforced with fiber-glass." ...
"It's really useful for a fighter," the soldier said. "Something special. My mother sent it to me from London," he went on. "As I said, it's something special. She was afraid I'd be killed and this was the only thing she could find to protect me. Apart from her prayers."
From: Yahya Yakhlif, A Lake Beyond the Wind

'שכפ"צ או ציצית? A bullet-proof vest or Tzitzit?

YNG work-in-progress 1

YNG work-in-progress 2

YNG work-in-progress 3

YNG, Skin's Gaze, Oil on Canvas, 30.5 x 40.6cm, 2016

                                       

  Car park where Samakh railway station used to be. Photos by YNG, 2008

From: http://www.palestineremembered.com/Tiberias/Samakh/index.html#Pictures

ציוריי 'פמניזציה של אספלט' מתייחסים למקום בו עמדה פעם סמח' וכיום יש שם מגרש חנייה במיוחד על יד תחנת הרכבת ההיסטורית שציינה את הגבול בין פלסטינה וסוריה. 

The group of paintings entitled 'Feminization of Asphalt' relates to the place where Samakh once stood. Today in place of the Palestinian town there is a large car-park near the historic railway station which marked the border between Palestine and Syria

YNG, Feminization of Asphalt or Samakh undone

Oil on canvas, 42 x 30cm, 2015

פמניזציה של אספלט או פרימת סמח', שמן על בד

This clip describes the process of making cotton threads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH_b3Heo48I

W. J. T. Mitchell: “objects are the way things appear to a subject – that is, with a name, an identity, a gestalt or stereotypical template. … Things, on the other hand, … [signal] the moment when the object becomes the Other, when the sardine can looks back, when the mute idol speaks, when the subject experiences the object as uncanny and feels the need for what Foucault calls ‘a metaphysics of the object, or, more exactly, a metaphysics of that never objectifiable depth from which objects rise up toward our superficial knowledge.’ “

From: Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter, a political ecology of things, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2010, p. 2.