Sid Sharp

Moyshele

Illustration

2021

Acrylic, watercolour, graphite, pastel, and collage on archival paper

22 x 22 inches

Based on a Yiddish folktale. After Moyshele is killed and his remains are tossed in the yard, his bones plant in the soil. The next spring, a new Moyshele grows from a bush in the same spot.

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Sid Sharp

Illustration

“My thesis project The Occupant interprets the body through folk tales of magic and transformation to create an imagined world wherein our conceptions of our inner selves replace the external view.”