By COLlive staff
Artist and photographer Shalom Ber Burkis has created a beautiful, colorful street art of a Jewish child saying the Shema before bedtime on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights.
The painting on Kingston Avenue between Carroll and Crown Streets is loosely based on the famous painting ‘The Starry Night,’ by Vincent van Gogh, with a swirling night sky surrounding a child seated on his bed.
This is the street art version of a digital painting Burkis created a few years ago.
“The digital art took about 40 hours and is different because it’s more focused on the person in the painting. In this one, I intentionally kept the subject smaller so that when the viewer looks at the painting, they can imagine themselves in it,” he says. The same is true for the street art Burkis created on the next block over of a young girl lighting Shabbos candles.
“My hope is that when a child sees the paintings, they can feel part of it, and imagine themselves in the painting as if they are doing the Mitzvah.”
Very talented young man!
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Beautiful. Kol Hakavod!