This month’s Oculus feature, titled “Windows From the Pandemic,” is an 18” x 18” collage, created with acrylics, oil sticks and markers on canvas by Judith K. Weiner, a founding member of the shul’s Judaism and Art group. “I recently came across a quote from Miles David which, for me, defines the artistic process,” the artist told The  Shofar. “Davis wrote, ‘Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.’ In this piece, what’s not there is reflected in   the multiple views or windows into the pandemic.” Placed in a grid of nine canvas-on-canvas windows, the collage   presents “reflections in time and space as well as visions of time and space,” she said. The piece will become part  of the Shehechyanu Curtain, a visual collection of pandemic experiences by shul members.

Photo by the artist