Varda Breger
Varda Breger 2025 CAS
Civilization ignoring the elegies of Mother Earth" "
In my paintings and poems (in Hebrew and English), I explore ecology and social life on our vulnerable planet.
I use mixed media, transparent, and opaque, mainly on paper.
Streams of spontaneous running paint cages a blurred deer, rudely trod upon by my shoe or a car tire. An elephant with a broken task appears out of chaos. An abused nude body of a woman, her head hidden with a fig leaf, and a knife and fork beside her to remind us of murder in the family. The threat of nuclear weapons is always on my mind (MSc. Chemistry). The atrocities and the cruel war in my own country, in Ukraine, and in other places drive me to act for Peace with my humble tools.
Inspired by the return of migrating birds at the revived Hula Lake, I wrote:
FOLLY WARS
Migrating birds,
from north to south and back,
season after season,
millions of miles.
Each flap of wings
supports the bird behind.
Mysterious migration,
Following a map of stars at night,
the sun's compass during daylight.
No fuel, no flag, no borders, No God.
Caressing the planet
fraternity of feathers.
Fugitives of hunger and frost,
not folly wars.
Varda Breger
