I enjoyed this piece over at Obit magazine:
It’s good to be a dead leader.
Not so for Ariel Sharon, the (arguably) most influential and the (certainly) most enduring politician in Israel. Sharon has never been memorialized, has never had a funeral, and is barely mentioned anymore in Israeli political conversations. He’s also not really dead.
Into this void recently stepped an Israeli installation artist, Noam Braslavsky, 49, who held a show at Kishon Gallery in Tel Aviv this winter that enjoyed international media attention. Braslavsky created a real-life Sharon, eyes open and mechanically breathing in a hospital bed, wearing his trademark button-down blue shirt.
“People didn’t have the opportunity to mourn,” Braslavsky said. So he decided to give them that chance.
Read the entire, very well written article, here. Good pics here.
