A Reading Path down a Rabbit Hole: Yardena Kurulkar

The impact of her father’s death on her art — the songs she remembers he sang were poetically used at both birthdays and funerals, later inspiring her artwork “Earworm”

“The Invisible Father’ contains 13 snow globes alluding to a world of fairytales, except these are born from memory. A rabbit fashioned from her family’s nail cutter is the protagonist of each sphere. The white flakes of confetti inside the globe are actually nail clippings – of the exact length the artist’s father’s nails would have grown and been clipped in his short lifetime.”