100 pieces

These 100 Terracotta miniature busts do not glorify lineage or nobility, nor do they portray heroism and immortalization as did the idealized portrait busts of the Roman Emperors. Individually placed on vertical plinths this “portrait” gallery of businessmen, politicians, law-makers, media people, professionals etc. is a comment in Palestine and elsewhere, on a rising social and political elite puffed by power, money, egotism, greed, self glory, pompousness and conceit.
Although each of the busts is of an individual, yet these portraits are typified by the same collective expression of an empty vainglorious gaze.
The humble material of clay of which the “portraits” are made, stands in contrast to the classical marbles or bronzes, symbols of endurance and immortality.