{"id":42160,"date":"2023-09-01T01:35:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T08:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=42160"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:39:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:39:03","slug":"about-the-rosh-hashanah-cover-art-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/about-the-rosh-hashanah-cover-art-3\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Rosh Hashanah cover art"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent hours online trying to find a suitable piece of art for this year\u2019s Rosh Hashanah cover, then even more hours for what I might do myself. I really wanted to include a shofar in whatever I did, as a call to hope and action, for myself as much as anyone else.<\/p>\n

I stumbled on artist Yitzchok Moully\u2019s Elul Shofar Art Challenge (moullyart.com<\/a>). Moully\u2019s work is bright, colourful, full of life. As I mulled it over, I received an email from local artist Merle Linde, who generously created art for the JI <\/em>\u2019s Passover cover this year<\/a> and for last\u2019s year Rosh Hashanah issue<\/a>. She sent me an emotionally charged piece lamenting the countless trees that have been destroyed by wildfires. The base painting was an acrylic pour, and I spent several fun hours learning about and practising the technique, deciding it wasn\u2019t quite what I wanted for my shofar blast.<\/p>\n

I eventually came across creativejewishmom.com<\/a>, the site that inspired my 2020 Passover cover depicting the Israelites (made of corks) crossing the Red Sea, who made a second appearance for Passover 2021, participating in Zoom seders. This time, it was a Tashlich picture made with yarn, coloured paper and felt marker that caught my eye on creativejewishmom.com<\/a>. Inspired, I made the JI<\/em> masthead out of yarn and ink, and created the shofar and the hand holding it \u2013 I wanted there to be a human presence, as we are critical to any change, for better or worse.<\/p>\n

\"image<\/a>The middle section of the page eluded me for days, and I tried various things that just didn\u2019t feel or look right. Thankfully, a middle-of-the-night couple of hours resulted in the finished cover, albeit with some tweaking in Photoshop. It ended up being more cheerful than I was intending. I am happily surprised at my latent optimism, and hope that readers also find it uplifting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent hours online trying to find a suitable piece of art for this year\u2019s Rosh Hashanah cover, then even more hours for what I might do myself. I really wanted to include a shofar in whatever I did, as a call to hope and action, for myself as much as anyone else. I stumbled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[2466,1802,22223,1801,2011,22598],"class_list":["post-42160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-art","tag-high-holidays","tag-merle-linde","tag-rosh-hashanah","tag-shofar","tag-yitzchok-moully"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}