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And in the end...

And in the end, the question remains: how can one create art when surrounded by rivers of blood? To act. To organize. To march. To protest. But what about the art? Where does the impulse to bring new artwork into a world engulfed in massacre and oppression come from? The truth is that I have not yet found the answer. I paint because it happens — because the act insists on itself. I have no way to explain it, and no way to justify it. I think about this every single day, with

Naor Kapulnik

Dec 6, 20251 min read

Between Myth and Rupture: Painting the Binding of Isaac Today

For the past year, I have been working on a series of paintings that revisit the story of the Binding of Isaac — not through the familiar framework of obedience, faith, or divine command, but through the language of place and crime. What happens when Mount Moriah is no longer a symbol of devotion, but a landscape saturated with ancient and recurring violence? What does it mean to identify not with the patriarch or the hero, but with the victim? This shift in perspective has s

Naor Kapulnik

Dec 6, 20252 min read