Hole Personality

Though the ceramic piece "Hole Personality" is only 10cm x 13cm, it contains Jean Kadmon's interest in holes as a sculptor. Such interest was roused when she first began playing with fired clay. Rina Kimche, a friend who has become one of Israel's best known "Ceramic Sculptors," was making a wall piece for a building on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The wall piece was full of innovations in its holes. At the same time, Rina Kimche made a ceramic piece influenced by mud brick buildings of the Sahara that had no glass in the windows. This made Jean Kadmon pay attention to buildings under construction on Jerusalem hillsides before glass was inserted in the windows, and on holes in general. It is a fascination that has never been lost in her sculpting and also, during the last years in a return to photographing, (with color and with the great lens of a Pentax camera.))