AGAC 2023 Top 25 Finalist - Shoshana Waldbaum - Re-imagining The Sleepers
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AGAC 2023 Top 25 Finalist - Shoshana Waldbaum - Re-imagining The SleepersTop 25 Finalist in the AGAC 2023 Artist: Shoshana Waldbaum Name: Re imagining The Sleepers Size: 450 mm x 795 mm Medium: Mixed media, oil and thread on canvas Unframed Price: R6,500 Shoshana is an emerging South African artist, and she has been awarded as a Top 25 Finalist in the ARTi Gallery Art Competition 2023! About this piece: This piece is inspired by Le Sommeil, painted by Gustave Courbet in 1866. it is also known as Les Deux amies, Paresse et

Top 25 Finalist in the AGAC 2023

- Artist: Shoshana Waldbaum

- Name: Re-imagining The Sleepers

- Size:  450 mm x 795 mm 

- Medium: Mixed media, oil and thread on canvas

- Unframed

- Price: R6,500

Shoshana is an emerging South African artist, and she has been awarded as a Top 25 Finalist in the ARTi Gallery Art Competition 2023!  

About this piece: 

This piece is inspired by Le Sommeil, painted by Gustave Courbet in 1866. it is also known as Les Deux amies, Paresse et Luxure and The Sleepers (in English). I chose this work because I was intrigued by how controversial this painting was in its day. In fact, it wasn't allowed to be shown publicly until 1988.

Not only does this painting predict eroticism in a straightforward manner without the aid of cupids or other mythological justification, but it also depicts lesbianism, making it vulgar to the average person of its day. It also made it very advanced and forward-thinking for its time.

I admire Gustave Courbet's boldness. My admiration for Courbet and my fascination with the controversial nature of his work (and the fact that I love to paint the female form) inspired me to create my own version of this work.

About the Artist:

Shani was born in Harrismith, South Africa in 1975. She knew from a very early age that she wanted to be involved in the arts. At the age of 4 she moved to Durban. It was here, influenced by her sister and her sister's friends, that she started cultivating her love of drawing and painting. In 1990 Shani moved to Johannesburg where she matriculated in 1992. She studied art at school but is mainly self-taught. After matriculating she moved back to Durban where she supported herself through her art. By 1995 – the year her daughter was born – Shani was well acquainted with the usual art forms such as drawing, painting, print-making, sculpture & mosaics. She became intrigued with living, moving art; so she added another medium to her repertoire by apprenticing in the art of tattooing & became a tattoo artist.

She went on to produce a collection of paintings inspired by different tattoo styles. In 2001 Shani moved back to Johannesburg where she currently resides. Her works have mainly featured around planetary awareness, her love of trees and her loathing of all forms of injustice and inequality. Fun & frivolity have also featured strongly; as well as abstract subjects- the likes of thought, emotion & philosophy. When her sister passed away in 2016, Shani’s work took on another dimension as it helped her to heal. Her understanding of the eternal cycle of life and coming to terms with loss started to feature in her work. She often uses her sister as the subject of these works

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James B Greer
Lexington, US
★★★★★ 4
Practical Pilgrim Traveling
Format: Paperback
My wife and I earned a compostela walking a portion of the Camino Frances in May of 2004. Since then I've read many books on pilgrimage, including several accounts of other pilgrims' journeys on the same road we traveled. Many are what another reviewer describes: diaries of the interior lives of the author, focusing mainly on their hardships and triumphs, as if to point out how they changed the camino, rather than how they were changed by it. If I felt that this were all to this book, I wouldn't recommend it. Instead, I think this book provides a wonderful balance between soulful reflection and the pragmatism of the all-too-physical journey. Walking the camino does appear to have all the ingredients necessary for earning a 'spiritual experience merit badge', and some seem to walk it just to earn pilgrimage street cred. Even were that Rupp's intention, and I doubt very much that is the case, she's provided a great perspective for potential pilgrims and useful material to aid past walkers. It's true that she does not shy away from describing unpleasantries of the road: dirty accommodations, illness, rude pilgrims, bad food, and bad weather. These are very real likelihoods, and she discusses them very frankly; pilgrims do not float along the road, barely touching the earth, and any idyllic expectations soon come face-to-face with harsh reality. Rupp does not bring up these issues merely to complain, however; the benefit of this book is how she treats these subjects as well as her prayerful introspection as equally engaging points of reflection and provides a useful perspective on integrating even these issues into a larger pilgrimage experience. The subtitle of the book, however, is "Life Lessons from the Camino", and that's the true value of these observations: her effort in showing that much of our day-to-day life is filled with just these sort of experiences and just this sort of potential for reflection, appreciation, and understanding.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2008
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Maggie N
San Leandro, US
★★★★★ 5
Putting one foot in front of the other
Format: Paperback
I actually bought this book as a gift for a friend who is considering making this pilgrimage. I read it for the first time when it was first published, just because Joyce Rupp is one of my favorite spiritual writers. She has a gift for delving into the spiritual on many levels, from the perspective of a woman, a woman religious, one acquainted with the life and love of God. She writes in an incredibly lucid manner and captures the divine in the midst of life struggles, always prayerfully, with uncommon insight and compassion. In this small and readable volume she tells it like it is. This book differs somewhat from others I've read in that it is her own lived experience of making this journey across Spain. It's illustrated with photos from that journey and populated and enriched with the varied pilgrims she met along the way. I recommend it especial for anyone contemplating making this amazing journey, but also for those of us who wish we could.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2013
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Julie W. Capell
Los Angeles, US
★★★★★ 5
Must read before walking the Camino
Format: Kindle
Beautiful, thoughtful account of the many ways walking the Camino can challenge us and help us grow. By far the best of the Camino books I read.
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Mountain Rose
Waukegan, US
★★★★★ 3
Not a bad first-person account
Format: Paperback
I had mixed thoughts about this book. It's the author's personal experiences and thoughts about the Camino, but aren't most books about the Camino? I tend to think it's a little too much interior maundering, how every part of the experience affected the writer. Still, what would you expect? I have to call this just an ok read. Most of the reason I liked it at all is because I am intrigued by the Camino and enjoy reading about it. The writer is a dedicated sister and her companion was a retired priest. I enjoyed the places where she touched on Catholicism, but there wasn't much of that. But there was the part of the book that I found a jarring note, and that was about her take on some fellow Catholics. She and her companion meet a group of three helpful, warm, caring priests and take them to be Jesuits. The priests inform them that that are Opus Dei. As the sister and priest continue walking, they find they are both astounded at the goodness of these men, since Opus Dei is considered to be extremely wealthy, conservative, and have strong ties to traditional Rome. (I thought all Catholics felt they have ties to Rome. I myself talk about the year I "crossed the Tiber.") It is just amazing to this twosome that such nice men could be from wealthy, conservative Opus Dei. I thought this antipathy toward a Catholic group known to do good works told a lot more about the writer than about the well-met priests--maybe more than she intended to let slide about herself. It was the one part of the book that struck a negative note for me. Other than that, I also wished for more at the end. They finished the Camino and went on to Finisterre. (Huh? What happened to the time spent at the Cathedral at the end? The beauty of the place and the experience of Mass there, and that wonderful incense burner. That whole part was left out.) I finished the book and consider it just "ok".
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Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2021
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E. Lingle
Los Angeles, US
★★★★★ 5
Been on the Camino and love this book
Format: Paperback
I am a Joyce Rupp fan. I'd always dreamt of doing the Camino some day, and when I saw that Joyce had done it, and written a book about it, I quickly bought it and read it. Her book gave me the courage to buy a plane ticket and go. I'm a hiker and camper. I could tell from reading her book that some of the facets of the hike- some of the albergues, some of the pilgrims, some of the food-- etc etc-- were perhaps harder for her to accept than they would be for me. I thought she gave a really honest appraisal of how things were for her, and was touched by how she eventually resolved some of those contretemps. I recently was looking at reviews of the book and was surprised to see some of the negative reviews. What I got from reading Joyce's book was an honest look at the Camino from the eyes of a middle-aged woman used to her own personal space, solitude, food, level of cleanliness, etc. One does necessarily give a lot of that up when on the Camino, if you stay in the albergues! They are fabulous places for meeting people from all over the world- but they can make you cringe if you are not used to hearing snoring at night. What I love about this book is the life lessons, her thoughts on what she found there, and what she got out of it in spite of -- and maybe even because of her discomfort. I recommend this book for mature people thinking of hiking the Camino. In 2011 I accompanied a women's group from my church from Samos to Santiago, and I asked them all to read the book-- they liked it, too.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2013

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