The Voice of Color

Our deepest emotions bend the expressive capacities of the humanlanguage to the breaking point. In this book child survivor of theShoah artist/composer Judith Evan Goldstein transforms tragediesand horrors into multi-colored richly textured images on wood andcanvas. Her paintings palpably indict the perpetrators of thecrimes against the Jewish people providing a voice for thevictims. Goldstein balances painful memories with testimony to thecherished new lives built by survivors. Joy not evil has the lastword. Dr. Elena Procario-Foley Ph.D Driscoll Professor ofJewish-Catholic Studies Iona College Chair of the Council ofCenters on Jewish-Christian Relations New Rochelle New YorkJudiths art is a reflection of her painful journey and personalexperiences during the Holocaust daring and colorful as if donethrough the eyes of a child. She and her metaphorical art appear inthe film As Seen Through These Eyes of which the title comesdirectly from Judiths profound assertion What Ive seen throughthese eyes I made a promise to tell the world so that it willnever happen again. In this book Judith unlocks the collectiveunconscious and reconstructs the unthinkable horrors of her past asa memorial. As a composer/lyricist and artist Judith says Ipaint the images of my childhood and play the images I see. HilaryHelstein Director/Producer of As Seen Through These Eyes JudithEvan Goldsteins art and music have made a significant contributionon the pantheon of Holocaust art at the Florida Holocaust Museumand in the world. Her art using bright colors wonderful imageryand the underlying sadness of a childhood interrupted brings uscloser to understanding the human condition. Her music haunting orlively rooted in traditions yet ever new expresses the very heartof memory. Judiths work most of all makes the incomprehensibleaccessible. The visual the auditory the non-verba