This collaboration between poet David Caplan and Noah Rabinowitz captures Jewish culture.
A natural selection of photographs that never seemed forced communicates a true representation.
The collection of images sits around a light brown hue - this is an interesting idea - cultures can have a certain colour palette because of their visual identity / place of worship.
Into My Garden
As if New Jersey were Babylon, an Argentine
and an Istreali argue in Aramaic, Styrofoam
cups of instant coffee warm their hands,
Other boys return last night's commentary:
I have come into My gardern,
back and forth they sing like an invitation.
What did I learn in school? Whenever
the philosopher lectured on the death of
metaphysics, pollen found a window, pistil
and stamen crazed with each other.
Yellow, the serpentine walls and columns.
Yellow, the library where a church belonged.
Some nights his student recited
the lecture like a pledge, but nothing changed
not the pitcher between us, the glass
slick with our fingerprints, the envy I felt.
Boys dressed like men race the stairwell
singing, as if to hear what My garden means:
seven generations caused God to withdraw,
seven generations drew him back.
All those years of talking–what did I learn?
All arguments end with a shrug.
- David Caplan
'A warm, brown tone pervades the photos – the wood in the synagogue, the bookcases, the desks – making them comforting and familiar. Nothing is stereotyped, nothing is gawped at; the camera doesn’t feel intrusive, only inquisitive. We see what is lyrical in a life, in a lifestyle. Noah believes that “in the scope of visual art, still photography comes the closest to poetry of any practice.”'
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