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In The Beginning Print

Joyce Steinfeld

United States

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This artwork started out as a 3D Collage with metal parts, wrapped wire, semi-precious gemstones, paint and resin. After the 3D Collage was finished, I photographed it and printed it as a metal print on aluminum. The metal print is larger than the original collage. I thought it was interesting how the print is the same as the collage, but very different. It reminded me of the difference of going to see a baseball game in person and watching the same game on the T.V.. They are both the same game, but the experience is different. This is a common experience in our modern culture. I then took the photograph and put it into photoshop. Here I was able to add as an overlay the Hebrew letters that make up the phrase “In the Beginning”. Some of the letters were actually photographs of bronze sculptures I made of that particular letter. Other letters were digitally created in the computer, by tracing in the computer, hand drawings of the letter shapes. After the metal print was made, I laser cut the same letter shapes from a sheet of acrylic that I had gilded in gold color on one side. I cut the letters in reverse so I could flip them over and the acrylic would protected the gilding as it would be viewed through the clear acrylic. These letter were attached to the metal plate with resin. This second collage was photographed and this is a print of this collage. The first sentence of the Old Testament starts with the words “In the Beginning”. This is a modern visual interpretation of the Hebrew Letters that make up this phrase.

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Giclee on Canvas

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20 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in

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21.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in

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Joyce Steinfeld is best known for her sculpture and artwork, that empowers people to connect with their best self and live an aspiring and inspirational life, with healing love and happiness.   I was born and raised in New York City. I can remember knowing in the first grade that I would be an artist. Art was my passion and I excelled in it in a way that I did not in my other school work. I attended the High School of Music and Art. It was a great honor to go to this school and I traveled on a  bus and train for 3 hours round trip each day to attend school. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts. College is what brought me to live in California.   My mature work started when I realized I could combine my spiritual interests with my artistic creations, and I started to understand the magic and power of the shapes that I made. Humans communicate in many ways, and my shape creations became a language of its own to me. I started to use words in my art and sculpture. An early project was to design a style for the Hebrew Alphabet. I taught myself the alphabet by looking at different versions of a letter, and then designing my own letter style. I also learned the spiritual meanings connected with each letter as taught in the Kabbalah tradition.  I combined letters to make word sculptures and I expanded to different languages such as Arabic, Chinese, and Sikh. I called this work “Language Art”.  I met native speakers of these languages who helped me, to make sure the artwork would be recognized for the word that it represented. Working together with these people, relationships and friendships developed. I began to feel that we are all one, but just wearing different coats that make us seem different to each other.
 Words are powerful, in the Bible, it says: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". Everything that is created is first a word. When I abstract the human form I want to express our oneness so I show gender but not race, nationality and ethnicity.  
I have public art in the United States and Israel. I had an exhibit in Israel, that I called " The Garden of Hebrew and Arabic Letters". I created a digital book with the sculptures and a poem and translated the book from English to Hebrew and Arabic. I worked with people who helped me with the translations and I was amazed to learn that my poem could not be translated, word for word, but was changed and paraphrased by the translation.

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