Wolvecote Cemetery (Jewish Section)
Working on a wider project about the Jewish History of Oxford, I have, along with two other artists, Katy Beinart and Ann Rapstoff chosen to study in the first instance the Jewish section of the cemetery at Wolvercote. I have visited the cemetery on two previous occasions and found it a very moving experience, particular reading those headstones which allude to family members lost in the Holocaust.
The wider cemetery is also where my great-grandparents are buried along with a great-great-uncle. This interests me therefore in respect to other projects I have worked or am working on where I try to see historical events through the eyes of my own past.
There are of course many stories contained in the Jewish cemetery all of which would be well worth exploring. To begin however, with I wanted to study the cemetry itself, using a method of observation which I have used elsewhere (see Old London Road).
Work in Progress 1 begins with my first day of observations.