Lemon Eaters A series of paintings in which the subjects are eating lemons. It has been interpreted as a variation of
Vincent van Gogh's "
The Potato Eaters".
The Potato Eaters is van Gogh's attempt at expressing the satisfaction of enjoying the fruits of hard, honest work, while the Lemon Eaters depicts heroes with a rather more complicated relationship to consumption.
Foxes and holidays The preamble to this album of drawings with text, is that
Joseph Stalin created a region,
Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Russian Far East where thousands of Jews were sent. Some were exiled and some went willingly to create a Jewish state in the Russian Far East. After the death of Stalin, many of them left the region, and those that remained mixed with the local Russian and Chinese populations. In this way, a subculture was created which included elements of
Russian Orthodoxy,
Taoist-
Buddhism,
Judaism and
paganism. This subculture has cult of holy foxes. That is, for every moment of a person's life, there is a specific fox-character that helps a person contend with their life challenges. Each of these fox-characters has its own holiday. ==References==