Jerusalem Stone

By Jonathan Lyon April 27, 2021 Material: Hand made paper and flowers Size: 6″ x 7″ Here’s some more paper play with scraps of hand made paper. It turns out that there’s a place not 10 minutes away by foot that makes hand-made paper!So I […]

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Thriving Right in their Teeth

Thriving Right in their Teeth

By Jonathan Lyon JonathanLyonblog.com Finally I have a response to counteract the desperation I sometimes feel as a son of a Holocaust survivor. My parents survived the Holocaust. A terrible and sad part of history filled with unspeakable horrors and challenges to the spirit. Yet […]

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Elevating Humanity

Elevating Humanity

A thought kernel that crystallized for me this morning with the help of my life-long friend Deborah Blank’s Post about Anne Frank. Note: The following is subject to periodic review. Although there are many ways to accidentally help humanity, it is to a large degree […]

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The “Why” of My Art

With the tendency toward pessimism and hopelessness in the face of all the world’s terrible news, it is easy to forget the far reaching long lasting and profound impact that simple acts of kindness and inclusion have on the world. This message is my art’s […]

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Liberator and Liberated

Liberator and Liberated

By: Jonathan Lyon Our neighbor Retired Colonel Vernon Gilbert ran the ROTC at St. Ignatius HS in San Francisco. And he was an officer at the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Dachau where my grandfather David Hollender was incarcerated at that time. It was […]

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Sof Davar – When All Is Said and Done

Sof Davar: “When All Is Said and Done” By Jonathan Lyon April 16, 2021 Handmade on Woven Card stock paper. Artist’s Proof: NIS 5,500/$1,550 framed plus shipping 36cm x 37 cm My piece on Kohelet. Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) is well famous for his wisdom and statements. […]

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Does God Need Our Light?

So here we were on Hanukkah, all of us for lighting the same candles singing the same blessings, posting the same type of pictures on Facebook, and the thought occurred to me, “such a generic experience!” This is what it may have felt like to […]

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