Howard Solomon's acrylic and paper collage on canvas.

Howard Solomon's acrylic and paper collage on canvas.

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"If Not for Others, What Am I?" is 8" x 6", acrylic and paper collage on canvas by Howard Solomon. Solomon created it in 2018, along with two other pieces of the same dimensions and mediums, "If Not for Myself, Who Will Be for Me?" and "And If Not Now, When?" The three titles come from Rabbi Hillel's three questions, or admonitions: get yourself in order, align with others, act. For Howard Solomon, these are the distillation of Jewish ethics. They also parallel the principles which animate Solomon's taichi practice: get my breath and balance in order, become mindful of the space I'm in, begin.

by Howard Solomon

Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern