At The End of Time

This puppet represents an elder in a distant future where Jewish traditions and rituals have been lost. Hand-sculpted in epoxy clay, her face reflects the aesthetics of folk masks from antiquity, juxtaposed to the modernity of the medium, representing the duality of Jewish life. She wears a vivid red cotton dress and headscarf, symbolizing blood, lineage, and Gevurah, the divine attribute of strength and judgment. Her head covering is adorned with red glass and semi-precious stone beads resembling blood drops, representing generational trauma and the belief that we carry our ancestors within our bodies.

Eighteen small red paper scrolls hang from her scarf, referencing chai, the Kabbalistic number for life, suggesting the perseverance of identity in any era where the touchstones of heritage are denied or forcibly deprived. The puppet embodies Jewish identity as something sustained not only through remembered ritual, but through embodied inheritance and acts of creation.