This month’s Oculus feature is an oil stick and graphite work by Judith K. Weiner, a founding member of the shul’s Judaism and Art group. Inspired by the ever-changing moods of morning and evening light and space across the tidal waters of the Mattituck Inlet, the artist created this series of paintings on three 5x7x2-inch wood panels. Titled “The Gates of Dawn,” the painting, punctuated by “zips” (black bands across the color field), is one of many sets of multiples in the artist’s thematic continuum that explores a concept from scripture: “You create day and night, rolling light away from darkness and darkness away from light.” The blessing follows the morning and evening recitations of the Sh’ma prayer, cited in the Siddur Sim Shalom, p. 28.                      Photo by the artist