Top creative art from 2013

Suitcase Memories by Yuval Yairi, July 5, 2013. [Photo/icpress]

An artist has created haunting landscapes on old and worn suitcases.

Yuval Yairi's nostalgia-tinged works sees sepia-toned images adorning the luggage, as if recounting the memories of trips once taken.

The Israeli captured the original photographs by travelling around in his old VW van and documenting picturesque locations. He was then able to imprint what he saw on the cases.

The scenes include crumbling rural buildings, a lone woman gazing at a ship and a building seemingly shot at night with all the lights on.

Yuval explains: "The series of Memory Suitcases is a part of my project of investigating the subject of memory.

"I took my suitcases on a photographic voyage around Israel in an old VW van, collecting with my camera some of the many stories left lying by the side of the road.

"Some of the images 'imprinted' on the suitcases, such as that of the tree house, echo childhood memories of Israel in the early 60s, memories common to a whole generation born before the Six Day War.

"Several of the suitcase images are of abandoned houses once belonging to Palestinian Arabs who escaped or were evacuated during the 1948 and 1967 wars. Some of the houses have remained untouched and decaying ever since; others have been inhabited by Jews who immigrated to Israel following the Second World War; others still are being converted into exclusive modern homes.

"All bear testimony to a far-from-remote history that we Israelis may try to forget, ignore or erase. Meanwhile, many Palestinians keep the keys to these houses, just as mementos, or in the hope of returning.

"A suitcase is perhaps the most potent and familiar image associated with migration, and for many different peoples an icon of wandering and displacement."

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