SATURN'S CHILDREN TURN THE TABLE

1996
4'x 3'x 3'
Steel, flour, salt

This piece is made of an army of little "bread soldiers" converging in "V" formation towards a place setting which has been engraved on the surface of a steel table. The plate bears the initials "R.R." for my father, and is acid etched in a gothic font that symbolizes the years he spent in a concentration camp in Germany during WWII, emerging as both victim and oppressor. Here the power struggle between oppressor and victim shifts as former victims can turn into oppressors and vice versa; but, unlike Goya's Saturn Devouring His Children in his Black Paintings series, my "numerous little bread soldiers" have the upper hand.