Two paintings depict the drip of the IV returning to her veins and bringing new life. In these paintings the flowered hospital bed sheets have turned into “the cloth of life”, upon which her outstretched hand reaches for help and meets a blessed hand that represents professionalism and efficiency.
Two paintings depict Ronit’s suffering and struggle with pain that the cancer produces daily, hourly and every minute in a constant, familiar way. Along with this, loss of hair, damage to her breasts and shaking her identity as a woman are insufferable side-affects. But, as in the past, and in daily life, Ronit faces it uncompromisingly when she looks head-on in the mirror with hope of a new dawn.
The pain, the fear and the hope find expression in the painting titled “STOP – RADIATION”. This painting depicts the serious threat accompanying the disease; however, this threat is broken down as the hospital bed sheet refers to the medical treatment that succeeded in the past and which continues now; the serious threat breaks down once again, as in the center of this picture Ronit has painted water flowing as life itself, a tree symbolizing continuity and the sun and light symbolizing love and hope.
Why can’t those people who rule our lives here and now, in this region of turmoil, come to learn from you about the price of life, about strength and generosity, about the power of hope and love?
Written by: Dr. Sylvia Fogel-Bijaoui
Beit Berl College
The College for Management Studies
