We laugh. We pray. We cry. We give thanks for joyous occasions and seek solace when in distress. The stones listen and absorb.

We step back in distance; in time; in perspective. The stones listen and speak. We are relieved. Hashem has heard our prayers and we are comforted by the silent presence of the stones as we hear.

Binyamin Basteker lives in Jerusalem. He learns in Jerusalem. He paints in Jerusalem. He breathes the stones of Jerusalem.  A product of the Indian masters of the 1970s and the Israeli abstract artists of the 1970s and 1980s, he combines this talent and history to express his, and our, encounters, with these stones.

Binymain is an artist. His language is abstract. His subject is expression. His paintings sing and dance; always hopeful. Day and night, summer and winter. Some are joyous and some are solemn. Some are mysterious while others are apparent. We have experienced them all. Each work evokes emotion; through these paintings we travel thousands of miles, in time, as we wait and anticipate the time that the stones shall return to their glory.

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