NOA YEKUTIELI supporting HARVEST HOME
Static Histories (3), 2019
Mixed media cement
6 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄8 x 1 5⁄8 in. (42 x 20.5 x 4 cm)
$2,000
“In 2017 I collaborated with Harvest Home by creating a site-specific public art installation in DTLA based on a relationship I developed with two women who were residents there at the time. I admire and appreciate their devoted work that not only provides a home for pregnant houseless women and their newborns but more so, offers a nurturing, structured program that assists them to attain independence and stability for the long run.” — Noa Yekutieli
Courtesy of the artist
ARTIST
Noa Yekutieli works in drawing, photography, sculpture and a signature manual paper cutting technique, to explore the tension between shared human experiences complicated through cross-cultural perspectives.
Yekutieli works with source images of disasters to metaphorically speak to the universal experiences of destruction, loss, trauma, and memory. Adopting a symbolic relation to ruins, the artist explores the collective and personal process of remembering and forgetting the past.
Static Histories (3), 2019, is one of a series of hand-molded cement sculptures. This body of work explores how temporary conditions become permanent traumas and how material and process can reflect a state of being. Yekutieli collected images from Israeli and Palestinian newspapers and laid them face-down on her studio floor on a plastic sheet. Over them she placed liquid cement. While the cement was in a state of possible change and (re)formation, Yekutieli attempted to grasp the leaking material with a thin layer of tissue paper to stop the spreading. The imagery becomes imprinted at random and the tissue, as if acting like a band-aid, tries to hold the materials together.
Born 1989, USA, lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel and Los Angeles, CA.
CHARITY
Harvest Home transforms the lives of homeless pregnant women and their children by providing housing, support, and programs that equip women to become great mothers.
The LA County Health Department reports that each year 5,000 women are homeless at some point during their pregnancy. In LA, there are currently less than 70 shelter beds available for women who are pregnant and in crisis. Of these, Harvest Home provides 10. This means that each year thousands of women lack housing and supportive programming during one of the most critical times in a mother and baby’s life.
Homeless pregnant women need more than just a bed and a warm meal. They need specialized interventions designed to increase mother and baby's physical, emotional, and spiritual well being. Harvest Home's programs were created with these unique needs in mind.