US artist’s arresting images of Gaza war
Maureen Clare Murphy
July 14, 2015
The images in Jaime Scholnick’s series Gaza: Mowing the Lawn, currently being shown at the CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles, are both familiar and unsettling.
The artist drew delicate lines over 50 photographs selected from the deluge of horrific news images of Gaza that flooded social media during Israel’s war last summer. With Scholnick’s intervention, the images are slightly abstracted, but also given further depth.
By covering up the often gory realism of the photographs, she gives them a new weight and dimensionality. The images appear eerily suspended in time. Dead children wrapped in funeral shrouds are blanketed once more by the artist’s lines.