Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture

Fourteen Stations suggests the “Stations of the Cross,” as well as railroad stations which were points of origin for deportations of Jews to concentration and death camps.

Galles uses a technique in charcoal based on aerial photos of the German camps. Each is accompanied by a Gematria style poem written by Jerome Rothenberg. Each large image contains one line of the “Kaddish,” the jewish prayer for the death, which evokes only the greatest of God and does not mention death. The images also suggest “God’s view of Man’s work.”