We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Yitzchok Moully a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Yitzchok , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?
https://www.moullyart.com/overflowing-blessings
Overflowing blessings interactive experiences, is one of my meaningful projects. It brings together interactive art, gratitude, sculpture, and smiles.
To bring communities together, and give them an opportunity to pause, think of things in their life that they are deeply grateful for, and be able to share that gratitude publicly.
The finished artwork sits on display in their community, giving them the chance to remember that gratitude, the joy they had in participating, and the smiles of brings to everyone seeing and overflowing cup full of blessings.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
Coming from a very different background to where I am now, it’s an honor to be where I am and doing what I’m doing.
I began my professional career as a rabbi sharing my love of Judaism with a community in small town America.
Through The years my creativity grew to the point that I could not do both, and I let go of my rabbinic career.
But I continue to use my art to communicate my deep love of Judaism, and my desire to share the meaning of Judaism with others.
Most importantly my work is about creating experiences for the public. Inviting the public into the creative act, turning a bystander into an active participant. And bringing deeper meaning to the community through their involvement in the the art.
From community murals, to overflowing blessings, to Menorahs there’s something for everyone to get involved in creating art together.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
Art is extremely essential to survival. At the same time it is the first thing to be cut when budgets are low.
It’s hard to quantify the exact value or impact on any one given piece of art. Yet places like wynwood Florida have been completely transformed through street art.
For that reason it’s difficult to communicate to the general Public the impact that they have, and therefore the value of Art.
I suppose part of what I’m trying to achieve is to communicate the potentially unseen power that art can have on people. Even without then realizing how impactful art is to themselves.
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
My mission is an artist is to bring light to the world.
As a rabbi and artist I strive to find the universal values and joy in Judaism and share them with the wider public.
Not just through static art but interactive art experiences and installations. I’m attempting to bring meaning to public art, so that it’s not just wow, but it is wow with meaning.
Hopefully getting participants more to think about and contemplate even after they have left the work behind.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.moullyart.com/
- Instagram: @moullyart
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yitzchok.moully?mibextid=ZbWKwL
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yitzchok-moully-01736411
- Twitter: @jewishpopart
Image Credits
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