It's freedom we ask for this Passover/Easter, 2026 🤍

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March 2026

Passover and Easter are approaching, holidays of freedom,holidays of spring,but these days, are not celebratory at all.Challenging days, days of war, days of death.

"Carbon Black 1A-5A" — *Optimistic Blue Awaits*, 2007, 68x80in | 203x173cm

Passover and Easter are approaching, holidays of freedom,holidays of spring,but these days, are not celebratory at all.Challenging days, days of war, days of death.

It’s hard to look reality straight in the eye; hard not to be blinded by the force of pain that keeps striking without pause. Hard to see where we’ve arrived, how far we’ve already fallen, without asking: how deep is the abyss?

And yet perhaps, as humans, we’ve been tempered by this, perhaps we’ve learned to hold on to hope even on the hardest days, and to believe that thanks to the good people around us, one day all of this will be behind us.

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Until then, I wish that we ascend from the fracture soon; that we send the agents of chaos to their rightful place; that through the black clouds the blue skies will appear again; and that we will be granted quiet, hope, peace, lives that are moral and full of love, guided by the dictates of our hearts. Lives that are not only about physical and emotional survival, but also about depth of meaning and longing, about essence, beauty, and love.

Waiting to expand again into a place where we can see, experience, and examine all of this reflected in the mirror of art.

Wishing safe days to come quickly, when we all go from slavery to freedom.

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Rotem