In "Same Thing From a Distance", Liam Ze’ev O’Connor presents new sculptures coated in artificial Jerusalem stone. To make these works, Liam pulls from a range of specific personal and cultural references: the windows of the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, liquor bottles from the streets of Oakland, Judaica from across the diaspora, and shells from the California coast. In coating these objects with artificial stone, Liam explores what it means to take this stone– an externally facing, public symbol– and wrestle it away from the dominant Zionist narrative, instead mixing it with domestic and ritual objects.

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