Artist Gallery

Karen Feuer-Schawager

I am a visual artist to satisfy my need to communicate my musings in my own language.

The represented pieces depict my musings on the illusions of the perception of matter. We perceive our world as composed of, in large part, solid objects. However, these seemingly solid objects are actually comprised of minute unattached moving particles. My paintings and drawings in this series are my interpretation of this illusion as particle-puzzle pieces which are moving within their space and influencing the larger puzzle of space in which they are located. The particles are represented by distorted geometric shapes.

TIKKUN OLAM is inspired by the16th century mystic Isaac Lauria‘s version of creation: “the phrase ‘tikkun olam’, usually translated as repairing the world, to encapsulate the true role of humanity in the ongoing evolution and spiritualization of the cosmos. Luria taught that God created the world by forming vessels to hold the Divine Light. But as God poured the Light into these vessels, they catastrophically shattered, tumbling down toward the realm of matter. Thus, our world consists of countless shards of the original vessels entrapping sparks of the Divine Light. Humanity’s great task involves helping God by freeing and reuniting the scattered Light, raising the sparks back to Divinity and restoring the broken world.”