IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR WINGS
To document the exhibition journey of WINGS of WITNESS, Schrier transforms aerial photos into painted monoprints. Although these works range from 30" to 60" wide, each painted print is an image of tons of soda-tabs assembled by thousands of volunteers, aerial photographed, regenerated, then individually splattered and painted. The process of dashing and splattering pigment refers to ritual priestly sacrifice in the ancient Temple. The brilliant yellow in many of the works is a reference to the yellow star Jews were forced to wear in fascist Europe, and also to a line from Pavel Friedmann’s poem, 'The Butterfly', “……..so richly brightly dazzlingly yellow.
WINGS FOR WARSAW, Painted montage monoprint 35" X46"
Image sources: aerial photo, WINGS OF WITNESS at Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center
of Nassau County, Welwyn Preserve, Glen Cove, NY, 2003
from installation containing 6 million can tabs, 100 feet wide, 4.5 tons.
Background skyline images of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto May, 1943.
WINGS OF WITNESS, Painted monoprint, 18" X 34"
Image source: aerial photo, meadow, Loudoun County, VA, 2001
from installation containing 5.5 million can tabs, 94 feet wide, 3.6 tons
Sponsor: Irwin Uran Gift Fund, Loudoun County Public Library, Leesburg, Virginia
for 2,000 area participants
WINGS OF WITNESS, Painted monoprint, 18" X 34" Image source: aerial photo by Yoni Bujo,
The Brandeis Bardin Institute, Simi Valley Ca, 2000 from mountain foothill installation containing 4 million tabs,
90 feet wide, 3.2 tons construction by Alonim Counselors in Training assisted by campers.
WINGS OF WITNESS, Painted monoprint, 18" X 24"
Image source: photo, The Bremen Museum, Atlanta, GA, 1999
from main gallery installation, 38 feet wide containing 1.5 million tabs,
the number of children destroyed in the Holocaust.
Museum sponsorship of project workshops for 1200 area youth participants.
The following matrix montage works were made prior to the Katonah Museum of Art sculpture garden installation of WINGS of WITNESS. Schrier’s photos taken from the museum rooftop were inset with aerial photos of previous installations.
Katonah/Bremen Descent. Montage/collage, 16" X 22", 2005
Image source: photo, WINGS OF WITNESS from The Bremen Museum, Atlanta, 1999
set into photo matrix, sculpture garden, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester County, NY.
Katonah/Wingspan. Montage/collage, 16"X 22" , 2005
Image source:
Aerial photo, WINGS OF WITNESS from The Brandeis Bardin Institute, Simi Valley California, 2000
set into photo matrix, sculpture garden, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester County, NY.
Hovering Katonah. Montage/collage, 18" X 29", 2005
Image source: Two aerial photos, WINGS OF WITNESS
at the Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center of Nassau County, NY, 2003
set into photo matrix, sculpture garden, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester County, NY.
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