Influence of suicide bombings on students' art

(28 Jun 2002) 1. Pan from view of nearby Arab village to students in cafeteria of Bezalel academy of arts and design 2. Pan from students looking at picture to close up of Maya Wine, the artist, dressed as a bride in front of the Sbarro pizzeria 3. Zoom in to picture of Wine standing in front of Moment cafe 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Maya Wine, Bezalel Academy art student "I dressed up as a bride and walked in the sites of Jerusalem but instead of being photographed in the beautiful sites of Jerusalem I went to place where there were murders and bomb attackers and I put myself with all the hope and fantasy of being a bride on the background of reality here." 5. Photo of Wine as a bride standing at bus stop in Jerusalem market where a suicide bombing took place 6. Tilt up from drawing of the Netanya hotel explosion to exhibition room 7. Close up of "wounded" Israeli soldiers dolls 8. Zoom in to a jar with toy soldiers inside 9. Student looking at drawings of the Seafood market shooting attack 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Efrat Lichtenstadt, Bezalel Academy art student "As and artist it's very hard functioning in all this situation and the most difficult thing is to open the newspaper in the morning seeing everything that happened yesterday, all the people that were killed and all the horror drawn into a map" 11. Shot of a pillow with a drawing of the Bethlehem Church Standoff 12. Close up of baby dolls in a jar 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Efrat Lichtenstadt, Bezalel Academy art student "When I saw this playmobile in the store, a regular toy store, a crippled playmobile, I thought it's us, we are going to a restaurant then we are on this wheelchair, he is smiling, it's very funny, people buy this for their children but then I ask myself why, why do they make this kind of things what is happening to us in this world that make us buy tanks or buy crippled playmobiles". 14. Ran Mendelson, Artist, looking at his pictures 15. Picture of father and son blindfolded in their living room 16. Picture of an old man handcuffed and blindfolded sitting with his wife at their home 17. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ran Mendelson, IDF (Israeli Defence Force) Reservist Soldier "What I wanted to pass to the people in Israel, who are tending not to see things as they are, or the Israeli media is not showing them these things, I wanted to pass them my feelings as a soldier who enters a Palestinian home, turns it upside down, handcuff the family members or searches the house. These things, in my opinion, if you did not find anything, causes a great injustice and could somehow revenge me in the future. Let's say if I gave a reason to a 13 year old Palestinian boy to commit suicide in five years, because I humiliated his father, tortured his mother and ruined his home". 18. Mendelson looking at more pictures STORYLINE: This year's graduating class at Jerusalem's prestigious Bezalel Academy of Art raised a few eyebrows and even surprised themselves with their choice of subjects for a final exhibition - terror, dismemberment and a soldier's guilt. One of the students - Efrat Lichtenstadt mixed different types of art to create a room which is recognisable as a multimedia, 3-dimensional presentation of the kind of headlines, pictures and graphics which Israeli newspapers use to report suicide attacks. Eye-catching glass jars of toy soldiers and naked babies feature prominently among her carefully selected artifacts Efrat said that even innocent children's toys, such as a hospital set of characters, take on a more sinister meaning when you are live in a city where suicide bombings are commonplace. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...