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My work has culminated in this most recent work inspired by Kafka’s Metamorphosis

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Struggling with the tidal wave of hatred around me, my fingers itched to paint something on my driveway. As with my car, I needed a way to express what I was feeling — to create something relevant and meaningful. For nearly twenty years, most of my work, mostly performance, has been connected to being a Jew. For a long time now, I’ve come to feel that I’m not just Jane, but Jane the Jew.

 

After glancing through Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, an idea came to me. I decided to paint three large beetles crawling up my driveway. The first is bright and colourful — how I once felt. The next two are black and monstrous. That’s how I feel I’m seen now — ugly, huge and menacing. I asked some wwoofer guests to help me paint them.

 

In Metamorphosis, the opening line goes like this: One day I woke up to find i had become a gigantic horrible black insect.  That’s the sentence I wrote along my driveway, weaving the words between the beetles. The lettering is messy because I hadn’t planned it carefully, but that’s ok.