Lost Son- Page 4

In Hebrew Lit. class we read some poems by famous Israeli poets. One of the most famous Israeli poets was a woman called Lea Goldberg. She wrote a lot of amazing poems, a lot for children, and most of them with very deep meanings and messages. This photo is from a series of photos I have made based on her poem called 'The Lost Son'. If you would read the poem, you would get a very dark and foreboding feeling from the first verse, as the son who left his home and his family a couple of years before-hand decides to go back and all of the road signs are 'asking' him: "are you sure it's the right decision?" That is why they are all in black&white. In the first series there are four paragraphs that describe the journey and the dilemma of the son. Each photo from this series is based on one paragraph from the first verse of the poem. In each paragraph a different road sign is talking to him. Thus, I gave color and emphasis to each road sign. In the series, Daniel Gilenson is starring as my 'lost son'.

I took this picture by the pool. In this paragraph the son's eye tells him that his lips are dry of thirst. So the son drinks from the water, and cries. Again, I made it black&white to emphasize the sad feeling of the picture, but here I also used different layers and the history brush to create a background to seem as though he is nature/desert and not by the pool. I took background picture right outside of school. I gave color to the water, his tear, and the drop that is falling from his hands.

The translation of this paragraph is:

And on the way his eye told him:
Your lips are dry of thirst!
And he bent down and drank from the water
And a tear touched another.