A large-scale landscape relief amidst whose folds a weeping willow grows against the backdrop of an arid wadi. The work simulates the style of 1950s public architecture, striving to reconstruct the aesthetic of reliefs used as memorial walls with national and heroic narratives. As opposed to the style that consciously refers to national decoration, Helfman”s work introduces an alternative narrative. The weeping willow”s tears transform into self-irrigating water; it is responsible for its own fate, nourished by a powerful intrinsic energy in a closed life cycle, at the margins of the historical events.

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