Ella (אלה): traditional Hebrew: an oak tree under which the wise used to rest.

Large leafless trees with their powerful twisted limbs left such a deep impression in her that working towards understanding and reproducing that experience has given meaning to her world.

(Ella Noe)

Tree collages came into being as the pandemic hit. Living in the center of a shut down, boarded-up city, I started tearing up paper and collaging it as a necessity to create beauty and ground myself in the midst of chaos.

In tearing up materials (books and booklets) carrying information and messages, repurposing, collaging them, looking for relationships of forms and color, unintentionally, yet significantly, I create messages which resonate with the viewer.

In the midst of chaos, I search for some lightness/feeling of hope. The Alcove’s essence, its skylight calls for translucency as substrate inviting light to play its part.

Inspired by the theme and the site, intermingling words, I extract, from run down art books/creative writing/ education texts, as well as those whose topics relate to affecting our land.